Entrepreneurial Behavior: Its Nature, Scope, Recent Research, and Agenda for Future Research

International Studies in Entrepreneurship

Volumn 24, Issue , 2009, Pages 327-358

  Bird, Barbara ^a   Schjoedt, Leon ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Behavior; Entrepreneurship Research; Nascent Entrepreneur; Organizational Behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 85145750661     PISSN: 15721922     EISSN: 21975884     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0443-0_15     Document Type: Chapter

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