Organizational sponsorship and founding environments: A contingency view on the survival of business-incubated firms, 1994-2007

Academy of Management Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1628-1654

  Amezcua, Alejandro S ^a   Grimes, Matthew G ^b   Bradley, Steven W ^c   Wiklund, Johan ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84892591957     PISSN: 00014273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/amj.2011.0652     Document Type: Article

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