Incidence of teams in the firms owned by serial, portfolio and first-time entrepreneurs

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 249-260

  Tihula, Sanna ^a   Huovinen, Jari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

First time entrepreneurs; Habitual entrepreneurs; Management teams; Small firms; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955421823     PISSN: 15547191     EISSN: 15551938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11365-008-0101-4     Document Type: Article

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