The formation of opportunity beliefs: Overcomingignorance and reducing doubt

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 75-95

  Shepherd, Dean A ^a   McMullen, Jeffery S ^b   Devereaux Jennings, P ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discovery; Entrepreneur; Gist; Recognition; Risk; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 85089055586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781783479801.00008     Document Type: Chapter

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