Building entrepreneurial knowledge reservoirs

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 595-612

  Widding, Lars Øystein ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurialism; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

EID: 28544449561     PISSN: 14626004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14626000510628252     Document Type: Article

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