Entrepreneurship, poverty, and Asia: Moving beyond subsistence entrepreneurship

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-22

  Bruton, Garry D ^a,b   Ahlstrom, David ^c   Si, Steven ^d  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Base of the pyramid; Development economics; Entrepreneurship; Firm growth; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923683850     PISSN: 02174561     EISSN: 15729958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10490-014-9404-x     Document Type: Article

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