Startup size and the mechanisms of external learning: Increasing opportunity and decreasing ability?

Research Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 2 SPEC., 2003, Pages 301-315

  Almeida, Paul ^a   Dokko, Gina ^b   Rosenkopf, Lori ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; External learning; Firm size

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEURSHIP; EXTERNAL LEARNING; FIRM SIZE; ORGANIZATIONAL SIZE; ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY; STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE; TECHNOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITY;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 0037304824     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-7333(02)00101-4     Document Type: Article

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