Entrepreneurial teams: Comparing high-growth software firms through structure and strategy

Management Research News

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 580-591

  Cooney, Thomas M ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Computer software; Emergent strategy; Entrepreneurialism; Ireland; Teams; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 68649089745     PISSN: 01409174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01409170910963000     Document Type: Article

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