Business students’ attitudes toward innovation and intentions to start their own businesses

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 691-711

  Wurthmann, Kurt ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude theory; Entrepreneurial intentions; Innovation; Theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874603730     PISSN: 15547191     EISSN: 15551938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11365-013-0249-4     Document Type: Article

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