Lost in translation: Cultural codes are not blueprints

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-17

  Aldrich, Howard E ^a   Yang, Tiantian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blueprints; Business failure; Cultural codes; Entrepreneurship; New venture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867361746     PISSN: 19324391     EISSN: 1932443X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sej.1125     Document Type: Article

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