Mark Casson: The entrepreneur at 30-continued relevance?

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 185-194

  Alvarez, Sharon ^a   Godley, Andrew ^b   Wright, Mike ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Economics of entrepreneurship; History of entrepreneurship; Mark Casson; The Entrepreneur

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901406179     PISSN: 19324391     EISSN: 1932443X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sej.1180     Document Type: Article

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