Entrepreneurial motivations, culture, and the law

Entrepreneurship and Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 11-40

  Licht, Amir N ^a  

^a INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

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EID: 84878165499     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87910-7_2     Document Type: Chapter

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