Entrepreneurship as connecting: Some implications for theorising and practice

Management Decision

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 958-971

  Anderson, Alistair R ^a   Dodd, Sarah Drakopoulou ^b   Jack, Sarah L ^c  

^a ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b The American College of Greece   (Greece)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive system theory; Complexity theory; Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship as a complex adaptive system; Entrepreneurship theory; Epistemology; Ontology; Social construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861395310     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741211227708     Document Type: Article

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