Entrepreneurial exit in real and imagined markets

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1109-1139

  Stam, Erik ^a,b,c   Thurik, Roy ^c,d,e   van der Zwany, Peter ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Growth and Public Policy   (Germany)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e EIM Group   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENTREPRENEUR; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; SELF EMPLOYMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955240115     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtp047     Document Type: Article

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