Cash-out or flameout! Opportunity cost and entrepreneurial strategy: Theory, and evidence from the information security industry

Management Science

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1844-1860

  Arora, Ashish ^a,b   Nandkumar, Anand ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (India)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Opportunity costs; Performance

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITIES; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; OPPORTUNITY COSTS; PERFORMANCE; START-UPS;

COSTS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 80054018905     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1110.1381     Document Type: Article

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