Entrepreneurship as institutional change: Strategies of bridging institutional contradictions

European Management Review

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-43

  Bjerregaard, Toke ^a   Lauring, Jakob ^a  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

developing country; entrepreneurship; institutional contradictions; institutional voids; social entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859833597     PISSN: 17404754     EISSN: 17404762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-4762.2012.01026.x     Document Type: Review

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