Corporate entrepreneurship: An empirical look at the innovativeness dimension and its antecedents

Journal of Organizational Change Management

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 429-446

  Rutherford, Matthew W ^a   Holt, Daniel T ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurialism; Innovation; Modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249721399     PISSN: 09534814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09534810710740227     Document Type: Article

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