Plunging into the sea, again? A study of serial entrepreneurship in China

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 667-680

  Li, Sali ^a   Schulze, William ^b   Li, Zhineng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c Development Research Center of the State Council   (China)

Author keywords

China venture; Performance; Serial entrepreneur

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350715066     PISSN: 02174561     EISSN: 15729958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10490-008-9102-7     Document Type: Article

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