Softbank:: An internet keiretsu and its leveraging of information asymmetries

European Management Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-15

  Lynskey, Michael ^a   Yonekura, Seiichiro ^a  

^a HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Information asymmetries; Internet; Keiretsu; New economy; Start up companies; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042907379     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-2373(00)00066-9     Document Type: Article

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