Academic entrepreneurship: The roles of identity, motivation, championing, education, work-life balance, and organizational justice

Academy of Management Perspectives

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 21-42

  Balven, Rachel ^a   Fenters, Virgil ^a   Siegel, Donald S ^a   Waldman, David ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85044087525     PISSN: 15589080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/amp.2016.0127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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