Environmental factors and entrepreneurial activity in Latin America;Factores del entorno y actividad emprendedora en américa latina

Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administracion

Volumn , Issue 48, 2011, Pages 31-45

  Álvarez, Claudia ^a,b   Urbano, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE MEDELLÍN   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurial activity; Entrepreneurship; Global entrepreneurship monitor (GEM); Institutional economics; Latin America

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865385365     PISSN: 10128255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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