Are Family and Nonfamily Tourism Businesses Different? An Examination of the Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy–Entrepreneurial Performance Relationship

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 388-413

  Hallak, Rob ^a   Assaker, Guy ^b   O’Connor, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^c ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

business performance; entrepreneurial self efficacy; family business; multigroup invariance; small and medium tourism enterprises; SMTEs; structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907190102     PISSN: 10963480     EISSN: 15577554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1096348012461545     Document Type: Article

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