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Entrepreneurship and paths to business ownership

Cooper, A. C., & Dunkelberg, W. C. (1986)

Strategic Management Journal, 7(1), 53-68

Examines alternative paths to ownership (starting, purchasing, inheriting, being promoted or brought in) and hypothesises that they involve different "degrees of entrepreneurship". Data on 1,756 owner-managers are used to relate path to background, motivations and prior careers. The abstract does not name the country or source (the sample is generally described as a US small-business owner survey; treat that detail as UNVERIFIED from the abstract).

Sourcedoi:10.1002/smj.4250070106406 citations (OpenAlex)

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Cooper, A. C., & Dunkelberg, W. C. (1986). Entrepreneurship and paths to business ownership. Strategic Management Journal, 7(1), 53-68.

https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.4250070106

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