The role of operations management across the entrepreneurial value chain

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1321-1335

  Joglekar, Nitin ^a   Lévesque, Moren ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

commitment; discovery; entrepreneurship; growth; operations management; organization; technology commercialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888368630     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2012.01416.x     Document Type: Article

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