When should entrepreneurs expedite or delay opportunity exploitation?

Journal of Business Venturing

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 333-355

  Choi, Young Rok ^a   Lévesque, Moren ^b   Shepherd, Dean A ^c  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ignorance reduction; Knowledge management; Opportunity exploitation; Optimal stopping; Timing of exploitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 39749086272     PISSN: 08839026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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