Entrepreneurship and organizational design: Investor specialization

Management Decision

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 883-896

  Casson, Peter D ^a   Nisar, Tahir M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurialism; Entrepreneurs; Investors; Organizational design; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249324480     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740710753693     Document Type: Article

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