Founder team interaction, customer and competitor orientation in software ventures

Management Research News

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 539-554

  Mueller, Thilo A ^a   Gemüunden, Hans Georg ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competitors; Computer software; Customer orientation; Social interaction; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 68649116742     PISSN: 01409174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01409170910962975     Document Type: Article

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