A causeeffect study of inter-firm networking and corporate entrepreneurship: Initial evidence of self-enforcing spirals

Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 355-373

  Thorgren, Sara ^a   Örtqvist, Daniel ^a   Wincent, Joakim ^a,b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Causal modeling; Corporate entrepreneurship; Interorganizational relationships; Network cooperation

Indexed keywords

EID: 76449098703     PISSN: 10849467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1084946709001363     Document Type: Article

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