Upside-down Venture Capitalists and the Transition Toward Pyramidal Firms: Inevitable Progression, or Failed Experiment?

Research in the Sociology of Work

Volumn 15, Issue , 2005, Pages 151-208

  Wasserman, Noam ^a  

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EID: 33645927654     PISSN: 02772833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-2833(05)15007-9     Document Type: Review

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