Founder backgrounds and the evolution of firm size

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1515-1538

  Roberts, Peter W ^a   Klepper, Steven ^b   Hayward, Scott ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ENTREPRENEUR; EXPORT; FIRM SIZE;

AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 82955184470     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtr026     Document Type: Article

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