A downside to the entrepreneurial personality?

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-8

  Miller, Danny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 84940867172     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/etap.12130     Document Type: Article

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