Entrepreneur-venture capitalist relationships: Mitigating post-investment dyadic tensions

Venture Capital

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 281-304

  Ţurcan, Romeo V ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Critical incident technique; Goal alignment; International new ventures; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249085573     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691060802151960     Document Type: Article

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