Tekijä: | Hyrsky, K. |
Otsikko: | Entrepreneurial metaphors and concepts: an explanatory study |
Lehti: | International Small Business Journal
1999 : OCT-DEC, VOL. 18:1, Iss. 69, p. 13-34 |
Asiasana: | Small business Sole traders Entrepreneurship Corporate culture Linguistics |
Kieli: | eng |
Tiivistelmä: | By combining the ideas of entrepreneurship and linguistics, this paper takes a new approach to examining the definitions of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs. An explanatory analysis of entrepreneurial metaphors and concepts is conducted to achieve this goal. In a quantitative analysis of metaphor, the sample consisted of 751 respondents from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Canada and Austria. |
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