How exactly do network relationships pay off? The effects of network size and relationship quality on access to start-up resources

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 501-525

  Semrau, Thorsten ^a   Werner, Arndt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Institute for SME Research Bonn   (Germany)

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EID: 84898047426     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/etap.12011     Document Type: Article

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