Middle managers' perception of the internal environment for corporate entrepreneurship: Assessing a measurement scale

Journal of Business Venturing

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 253-273

  Hornsby, Jeffrey S ^a   Kuratko, Donald F ^a   Zahra, Shaker A ^b  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial environment; Middle managers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005322024     PISSN: 08839026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-9026(00)00059-8     Document Type: Article

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