Developing a scale to measure liabilities and assets of newness after start-up

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 277-295

  Nagy, Brian G ^a   Blair, Eden S ^a   Lohrke, Franz T ^b  

^a BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAMFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assets of newness; Liabilities of newness; New ventures; Scale development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901244878     PISSN: 15547191     EISSN: 15551938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11365-012-0219-2     Document Type: Article

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