Entrepreneurial sensegiving and the attention contract

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 77-94

  Valliere, Dave ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; New venture start up; Resource acquisition; Sensemaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894079820     PISSN: 15547191     EISSN: 15551938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11365-013-0273-4     Document Type: Article

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