Examining the role of entrepreneurial experience and entrepreneurial self-efficacy on SMTE performance

Tourism Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 583-599

  Hallak, Rob ^a   Lindsay, Noel J ^b   Brown, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurial self efficacy; Experience; Performance; Small and medium tourism enterprise (SMTE); Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880025764     PISSN: 10835423     EISSN: 19433999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/108354211X13202764960744     Document Type: Article

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