Entrepreneurship in the theory of the firm

Small Business Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 111-126

  Auerswald, Philip E ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Entrepreneurship; Growth; Intrafirm externalities; Opportunity; Production recipes; Spillovers; Theory of the firm

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149140991     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-006-9023-0     Document Type: Article

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