Networking by entrepreneurs: Patterns of tie-formation in emerging organizations

Organization Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1849-1872

  Elfring, Tom ^a   Hulsink, Willem ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurial processes; Incubator; IT industry; Networks; Spin off; Start up firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 36648998686     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840607078719     Document Type: Article

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