Where to from here? EO-as-experimentation, failure, and distribution of outcomes

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 925-946

  Wiklund, Johan ^a   Shepherd, Dean A ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 80053239112     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2011.00454.x     Document Type: Article

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