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Original Article

Let's put the person back into entrepreneurship research: A meta-analysis on the relationship between business owners' personality traits, business creation, and success

Andreas Rauch University of Giessen, Giessen, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Michael Frese University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
Pages 353-385 | Received 01 Jun 2006, Published online: 02 Nov 2007

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