What you know or who you know? The role of intellectual and social capital in opportunity recognition

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 566-582

  Ramos Rodríguez, Antonio Rafael ^a   Medina Garrido, José Aurelio ^a   Lorenzo Gómez, José Daniel ^a   Ruiz Navarro, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

entrepreneurship; intellectual capital; opportunity recognition; social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651087095     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242610369753     Document Type: Article

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