Entrepreneurship as a Process: Toward Harmonizing Multiple Perspectives

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 781-818

  Moroz, Peter W ^a   Hindle, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84862108790     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2011.00452.x     Document Type: Article

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