All the right moves: How entrepreneurial firms compete effectively

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 116-132

  Katila, Riitta ^a   Chen, Eric L ^b   Piezunka, Henning ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b ONYX PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive moves; Large vs. entrepreneurial firms; New markets; Product innovation; R D

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867348418     PISSN: 19324391     EISSN: 1932443X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sej.1130     Document Type: Article

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