Skills brokerage: A new model for business start-ups in the networked economy

European Management Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 471-482

  Papagiannidis, Savvas ^a   Li, Feng ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business model; Business start ups; Digital media house; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Skills brokerage

Indexed keywords

EID: 24744465417     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2005.06.002     Document Type: Article

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