Antecedents of Business Opportunity Identification and Innovation: Investigating the Interplay of Information Processing and Information Acquisition

Applied Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 344-381

  Gielnik, Michael M ^a   Krämer, Anne Christin ^b   Kappel, Britta ^b   Frese, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 84893828404     PISSN: 0269994X     EISSN: 14640597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-0597.2012.00528.x     Document Type: Article

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