The company you keep: How young firms in different competitive contexts signal reputation through their customers

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 57-78

  Reuber, A Rebecca ^a   Fischer, Eileen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 27844466038     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2005.00069.x     Document Type: Review

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