Innovation and entrepreneurship: Managing the paradox of purpose in business model innovation

International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 239-255

  O'Connor, Allan ^a   Yamin, Shahid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Business model; Culture; Entrepreneurship; Growth; IC; Innovation; Intellectual capital; Scale; Scope

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959963005     PISSN: 14794853     EISSN: 14794861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLIC.2011.041071     Document Type: Article

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