A contextualized transactive memory system view on how founding teams respond to surprises: Evidence from china

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 197-213

  Zheng, Yanfeng ^a   Mai, Yiyuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese start ups; Improvisation; Knowledge acquisition; Surprise; Transactive memory system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883530536     PISSN: 19324391     EISSN: 1932443X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sej.1157     Document Type: Article

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