Tourism Entrepreneurship Performance: The Effects of Place Identity, Self-Efficacy, and Gender

Journal of Travel Research

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 36-51

  Hallak, Rob ^a   Assaker, Guy ^b   Lee, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

entrepreneurship; multigroup invariance analysis; nonrecursive models; place identity; self efficacy

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; GENDER RELATIONS; MODELING; PERCEPTION; POLICY MAKING; PSYCHOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84912078496     PISSN: 00472875     EISSN: 15526763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0047287513513170     Document Type: Article

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