Founder effectiveness in leveraging entrepreneurial orientation

Management Decision

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 305-324

  Mousa, Fariss Terry ^a   Wales, William ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business enterprise; Business environment; Entrepreneurial orientation; Entrepreneurialism; Founder chief executive officers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857957180     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741211203588     Document Type: Article

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