What you value or what you know? Which mechanism explains the intergenerational transmission of business ownership expectations?

Research in the Sociology of Work

Volumn 25, Issue , 2014, Pages 85-126

  Greenberg, Jason ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Business ownership; Entrepreneurship; Intergenerational; Self employment; Socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901409909     PISSN: 02772833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0277-283320140000025004     Document Type: Article

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