Explaining preferences and actual involvement in self-employment: Gender and the entrepreneurial personality

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 325-341

  Verheul, Ingrid ^a,c   Thurik, Roy ^b,c   Grilo, Isabel ^d,e   Van der Zwan, Peter ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c EIM Group   (Netherlands)

^d EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Determinants of entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial personality; Entrepreneurship; Gender; Latent and nascent entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856093076     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2011.02.009     Document Type: Article

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