Linking achievement motivation to intentions, goals and entrepreneurial behaviors

Handbook of Entrepreneurial Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 86-112

  Carsrud, Alan L ^a   Malin Brannback ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

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DOI: 10.4337/9781781006597.00012     Document Type: Chapter

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