Information exposure, opportunity evaluation, and entrepreneurial action: An investigation of an online user community

Academy of Management Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1348-1371

  Autio, Erkko ^a   Esmt, Linus Dahlander ^b   Frederiksen, Lars ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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EID: 84886859840     PISSN: 00014273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/amj.2010.0328     Document Type: Article

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