Liquidity Events and the Geographic Distribution of Entrepreneurial Activity

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Stuart, Toby E ^a   Sorenson, Olav ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0346308264     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3556656     Document Type: Article

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