Building new roads for entrepreneurship research to travel by: On the work of William B. Gartner

Small Business Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 341-350

  Hjorth, Daniel ^a   Johannisson, Bengt ^b,c  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gartner; Narrative; Organization; Poetic; Process; Weick

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949157713     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-008-9143-9     Document Type: Article

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