Organizations as fonts of entrepreneurship

Organization Science

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1322-1331

  Sørensen, Jesper B ^a   Fassiotto, Magali A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Careers; Entrepreneurship; Organizational theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053207709     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0622     Document Type: Article

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