Entrepreneurship and dynamic capabilities: How firm age and size affect the 'capability enhancement-SME performance' relationship

Small Business Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 33-57

  Arend, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingent effect; Domain; Dynamic capabilities; Entrepreneurship; Firm age; Firm size; SME; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891902993     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-012-9461-9     Document Type: Article

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