Balancing the skill sets of founders: Implications for the quality of organizational outputs

Strategic Organization

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-55

  Roberts, Peter W ^a   Negro, Giacomo ^a   Swaminathan, Anand ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; founder experience; quality evaluations; restaurant industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872925694     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127012460944     Document Type: Article

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