Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? The Relationship Between Vocational Interests and Individual Differences in Entrepreneurship

Journal of Career Assessment

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 102-112

  Almeida, Patricia I L ^a   Ahmetoglu, Gorkan ^b   Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

entrepreneurship; Holland; individual differences; RIASEC; vocational interests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891282999     PISSN: 10690727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069072713492923     Document Type: Article

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