Technology-based, "adolescent" firm configurations: Strategy identification, context, and performance

Journal of Business Venturing

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 205-230

  Bantel, Karen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0000859339     PISSN: 08839026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-9026(97)00033-5     Document Type: Article

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