Greed is good? Assessing the relationship between entrepreneurship and subclinical psychopathy

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 420-425

  Akhtar, Reece ^b   Ahmetoglu, Gorkan ^a   Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Career success; Dark side; Entrepreneurship; Personality; Psychopathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870238761     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.10.013     Document Type: Article

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