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19 - The Entrepreneurial Personality

Individual Differences and Social Capital in Work-Related Innovation

from Part III - Creativity and Personality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2017

By
Reece Akhtar ,
Gorkan Ahmetoglu  and
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Edited by
Gregory J. Feist ,
Roni Reiter-Palmon  and
James C. Kaufman
Gregory J. Feist
Affiliation:
San José State University, California
Roni Reiter-Palmon
Affiliation:
University of Nebraska, Omaha
James C. Kaufman
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
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The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Personality Research , pp. 372 - 390
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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