The new venture mortality myth

Handbook of Research on New Venture Creation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 194-215

  Levie, Jonathan ^a   Don, Gavin ^b   Leleux, Benoît ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c IMD   (Switzerland)

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