Is entrepreneurship necessarily good? Microeconomic evidence from developed and developing countries

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1453-1495

  Vivarelli, Marco ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC POLICY; ENTREPRENEUR; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MICROECONOMICS;

EID: 84892525783     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtt005     Document Type: Article

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