Who is a 'non-entrepreneur'?: Taking the 'others' of entrepreneurship seriously

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 432-453

  Ramoglou, Stratos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

economic methodology; entrepreneurial opportunities; fallacy of voluntarism; Gartner; non entrepreneur; ontology; rationality under uncertainty; realism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878188937     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242611425838     Document Type: Article

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