International Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Logic and Utility of Individual Experience Through Comparative Reasoning Approaches

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 45-69

  Jones, Marian V ^a   Casulli, Lucrezia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84892485436     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/etap.12060     Document Type: Article

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