Leveraging tenant-incubator social capital for organizational learning and performance in incubation programme

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 90-113

  Fang, Shieh Chieh ^a   Tsai, Fu Sheng ^b   Lin, Julia L ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHENG SHIU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Focal tenant; Incubation; Interorganizational learning; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 75749153586     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242609350853     Document Type: Article

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