News and nuances of the entrepreneurial myth and metaphor: Linguistic games in entrepreneurial sense-making and sense-giving

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 153-172

  Nicholson, Louise ^a   Anderson, Alistair R ^a  

^a ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 27844531724     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2005.00074.x     Document Type: Review

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