Decision biases and entrepreneurial finance

Small Business Economics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 819-834

  Adomdza, Gordon K ^a   Åstebro, Thomas ^b   Yong, Kevyn ^c  

^a ASHESI UNIVERSITY   (Ghana)

^b HEC PARIS   (France)

^c ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Cognitive biases; Decision biases; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurship; Fundraising; Informal finance; Social ties; Venture performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84965071011     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-016-9739-4     Document Type: Article

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