Entrepreneurial and business growth and the quest for a "comprehensive theory": Tilting at windmills?

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 249-260

  Leitch, Claire ^a   Hill, Frances ^a   Neergaard, Helle ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

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EID: 77952554726     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2010.00374.x     Document Type: Article

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