Entrepreneurship in the large corporation: A longitudinal study of how established firms create breakthrough inventions

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 6-7, 2001, Pages 521-543

  Ahuja, Gautam ^a   Lampert, Curba Morris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate entrepreneurship; Organizational learning; Radical innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000020871     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.176     Document Type: Article

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