Performance effects of venture capital firm networks

Management Decision

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 923-936

  Abell, Peter ^a   Nisar, Tahir M ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Networking; Value added; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249292635     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740710753729     Document Type: Article

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