Idea sets: Conceptualizing and measuring a new unit of analysis in entrepreneurship research

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 85-113

  Hill, Susan A ^a   Birkinshaw, Julian M ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial opportunity; Idea generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70949103664     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428109337542     Document Type: Article

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