The entrepreneurial journey as an emergent hierarchical system of artifact-creating processes

Journal of Business Venturing

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 603-615

  Selden, Paul D ^a   Fletcher, Denise E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Complexity; Emergence; Entrepreneurial journey; Hierarchy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929623417     PISSN: 08839026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2014.09.002     Document Type: Article

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