How Strategic Entrepreneurship and The Institutional Context Drive Economic Growth

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 50-69

  Bjørnskov, Christian ^a   Foss, Nicolai ^b,c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^c NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Freedom variables; Self employment; Total factor productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874671904     PISSN: 19324391     EISSN: 1932443X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sej.1148     Document Type: Article

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