Business takeover or new venture? Individual and environmental determinants from a cross-country study

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1099-1121

  Block, Joern ^a,b   Thurik, Roy ^b,c,d   Van Der Zwan, Peter ^b,c   Walter, Sascha ^e  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c EIM Group   (Netherlands)

^d MONTPELLIER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

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EID: 84883783728     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2012.00521.x     Document Type: Article

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