Entrepreneurship and the intergenerational transmission of values

Small Business Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 191-213

  Wyrwich, Michael ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cultural values; Entrepreneurship; Family economics; Historical natural experiment; Intergenerational transmission; Role model; Transition economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939936519     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-015-9649-x     Document Type: Article

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