Agency and governance in strategic entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 149-166

  Audretsch, David B ^a,d   Lehmann, Erik E ^a,b   Plummer, Lawrence A ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 58149299493     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2008.00284.x     Document Type: Article

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