Entrepreneurial action and the role of uncertainty in the theory of the entrepreneur

A Psychological Approach to Entrepreneurship: Selected Essays of Dean A. Shepherd

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 132-152

  McMullen, Jeffery S ^a   Shepherd, Dean A ^b  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4337/9781783479801.00007     Document Type: Chapter

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