Hard or Easy? Difficulty of Entrepreneurial Startups in 107 Climato-Economic Environments

Applied Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 469-489

  Van de Vliert, Evert ^a   Janssen, Onne ^a   Van der Vegt, Gerben S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIQUITY; BOLIVIA; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUSTRIALIZATION; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SINGAPORE; SUMMER; UKRAINE; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; WINTER;

EID: 84979073639     PISSN: 0269994X     EISSN: 14640597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/apps.12057     Document Type: Article

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