How corporate entrepreneurs learn from fledgling innovation initiatives: Cognition and the development of a termination script

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 829-852

  Corbett, Andrew C ^a   Neck, Heidi M ^b   Detienne, Dawn R ^c  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BABSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

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EID: 35048820893     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2007.00208.x     Document Type: Article

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