On Cultural and Macroeconomic Contingencies of the Entrepreneurial Orientation-Performance Relationship

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 255-290

  Saeed, Saadat ^a,b   Yousafzai, Shumaila Y ^c   Engelen, Andreas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Department of Electrical Computer Engineering   (Pakistan)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 84897655696     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/etap.12097     Document Type: Article

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