Making the ideal (local) entrepreneur: Place and the regional development of high-tech entrepreneurial identity

Human Relations

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 519-542

  Gill, Rebecca ^a   Larson, Gregory S ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

entrepreneurial identity; ideal self; identity work; occupational identity; place making; Silicon Valley

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898688708     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726713496829     Document Type: Article

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