Filling the entrepreneurial orientation-performance gap: The mediating effects of exploratory and exploitative innovations

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1001-1026

  Kollmann, Tobias ^a   Stöckmann, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

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EID: 84908508599     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2012.00530.x     Document Type: Article

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