Business failures: Liabilities of newness, adolescence, and smallness

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 458-464

  Kale, Serdar ^b   Arditi, David ^a,b  

^a ASCE   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RISK MANAGEMENT;

BUSINESS FAILURE; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

EID: 0032206692     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9364(1998)124:6(458)     Document Type: Article

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