Entrepreneurial discovery as constrained, sytematic search

Small Business Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 215-229

  Fiet, James O ^a   Patel, Pankaj C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurial discovery; Entrepreneurship; Experimental economics; Systematic search

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149092020     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-006-9010-5     Document Type: Article

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