A “Business Researcher” View on Opportunities for Psychology in Entrepreneurship Research

Applied Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 628-636

  Davidsson, Per ^a,b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGIST; PSYCHOLOGY; SCIENTIST;

EID: 84966441174     PISSN: 0269994X     EISSN: 14640597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/apps.12071     Document Type: Note

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