Entrepreneurship and poverty reduction: Applying I-O psychology to microbusiness and entrepreneurship in developing countries

Using Industrial-Organizational Psychology for the Greater Good: Helping those who Help others

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 394-438

  Gielnik, Michael M ^a   Frese, Michael ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203069264     Document Type: Chapter

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