Attribution and locus of control

Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics: The Process of Business Creation

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 205-213

  Shaver, Kelly G ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781452204543.n19     Document Type: Chapter

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