The presence of entrepreneurial opportunity

Business History

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 9-28

  Popp, Andrew ^a   Holt, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calcutta; entrepreneurial opportunity; imagination; merchant enterprise; phenomenology

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECONOMICS; ENTREPRENEUR; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE;

EID: 84870427140     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2012.687539     Document Type: Article

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