Moving on from nascent entrepreneurship: Measuring cross-national differences in the transition to new business ownership

Small Business Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 945-959

  Bergmann, Heiko ^a   Stephan, Ute ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth rate; Entrepreneurial process; Global Entrepreneurship Monitor; Nascent entrepreneurship; Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics; Transition ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888025091     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-012-9458-4     Document Type: Article

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