Toward a hermeneutical methodology for entrepreneurship research in a radical subjectivist paradigm

Entrepreneurship, Growth and Economic Development: Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 262-288

  Streb, Christoph ^a   Gupta, Vishal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84881808152     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9780857934901.00016     Document Type: Chapter

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