How can New Ventures Build Reputation? An Exploratory Study

Corporate Reputation Review

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 320-334

  Petkova, Antoaneta P ^a   Rindova, Violina P ^b   Gupta, Anil K ^c  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

new ventures reputation; qualitative study; reputation accumulation process; reputation building

Indexed keywords

EID: 71949107528     PISSN: 13633589     EISSN: 14791889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/crr.2008.27     Document Type: Article

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