The long way to entrepreneurship: Personality, parenting, early interests, and competencies as precursors for entrepreneurial activity among the ‘termites’

Approaches to Positive Youth Development

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 205-224

  Schmitt Rodermund, Eva ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781446213803.n11     Document Type: Chapter

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