Identifying some major determinants of entrepreneurial partnership, using a confounded factorial conjoint choice experiment

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 943-960

  Kanmogne, Michel ^a   Eskridge, Kent M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Business owners; Business partnership; Choice set; Confounded factorial; Decision making; Entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872670830     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-011-9575-1     Document Type: Article

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