Passion isn't always a good thing: Examining entrepreneurs' network centrality and financial performance with a dualistic model of passion

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 433-459

  Ho, Violet T ^a   Pollack, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

Business networking groups; Entrepreneurial performance; Harmonious passion; Network centrality; Obsessive passion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897081259     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joms.12062     Document Type: Article

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