The Climate for Entrepreneurship in European Countries in Transition

The Blackwell Handbook of Entrepreneurship

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 150-175

  Mugler, Josef ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Frame of reference; Impediments to entrepreneurship; Promoting entrepreneurship; Social and economic situation; Societal factors; Structure of analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986072976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781405164214.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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