Reflections on the 2010 AMR decade award: Whither the promise? moving forward with entrepreneurship as a science of the artificial

Academy of Management Review

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-33

  Venkataraman, Sankaran ^a   Sarasvathy, Saras D ^a   Dew, Nicholas ^b   Forster, William R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84055199001     PISSN: 03637425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/amr.2011.0079     Document Type: Article

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