Action and Action-Regulation in Entrepreneurship: Evaluating a Student Training for Promoting Entrepreneurship

Action plays a central role in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education. Based on action regulation theory, we developed an action-based entrepreneurship training. The training put a particu...

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