Top management teams and the performance of entrepreneurial firms

Small Business Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 805-816

  Eisenhardt, Kathleen M ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge of chaos; Entrepreneurship; Firm performance; Heuristics; Organizational processes; Organizational structure; Strategic decision making; Strategy as simple rules; Top management teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876685549     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-013-9473-0     Document Type: Article

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