Venture capital and the birth of the local area networking industry

Research Policy

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1135-1155

  Von Burg, Urs ^a   Kenney, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b Dept of Hum and Comm Development ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Dominant design; Industry; Local area networking; Social construction; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001673089     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-7333(99)00072-4     Document Type: Article

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