The Silent Story: Using Computer-aided Text Analysis to Predict Entrepreneurial Performance

To provide a naturalistic, empirical analysis of entrepreneurial decision-making through textual analysis, DICTION is used to analyse student journal entries made in conjunction with an entrepreneurship simulation used widely in teaching entrepreneurship. Concrete terms are used as a proxy for actio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Noel, Terry
Other Authors: Erskine, Laura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Journal of Entrepreneurship 2013
Subjects:
Bizcafe
Cata
Cognitive Processes
Decision Making
Entrepreneurship
Online Access:http://library.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui/handle/123456789/985
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