Business angel early stage decision making

Journal of Business Venturing

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 212-225

  Maxwell, Andrew L ^a   Jeffrey, Scott A ^b   Lévesque, Moren ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business angels; Decision making; Elimination by aspects; Qualitative analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751591726     PISSN: 08839026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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