Making sense of the elusive paradigm of entrepreneurship

Small Business Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 703-712

  Audretsch, David B ^a   Kuratko, Donald F ^a   Link, Albert N ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral; Conceptual; Eclectic; Entrepreneurship; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946474970     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-015-9663-z     Document Type: Article

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