High-Aspiration Entrepreneurship

The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Data

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Autio, Erkko ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Difficulty of firing; Entrepreneurship; GEM; Growth oriented entrepreneurs; High aspiration entrepreneurship; Multi level analysis; Opportunity costs of doing business; Panel regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920129159     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199580866.003.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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