Don't rest on your laurels: Reputational change and young technology-based ventures

Journal of Business Venturing

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 363-387

  Reuber, A Rebecca ^a   Fischer, Eileen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer graphics; Diagnosticity; Reputation; Resource based; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847248930     PISSN: 08839026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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