HomeGrocer.com: Anatomy of a failure

Business Horizons

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 289-300

  Fisher, Greg ^a   Kotha, Suresh ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy; Business models; Entrepreneurship; Merger; Online grocery; Teaching case; Venture financing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894226914     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2013.12.002     Document Type: Note

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