Beyond simple utility: Incentive design and trade-offs for corporate employee-entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 105-130

  Monsen, Erik ^a   Patzelt, Holger ^a   Saxton, Todd ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 73649114937     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2009.00314.x     Document Type: Article

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