How Entrepreneurs Become Skilled Cultural Operators

Organization Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 925-951

  Überbacher, Florian ^a   Jacobs, Claus D ^a,b   Cornelissen, Joep P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

autonomy; cultural entrepreneurship; legitimacy; resource dependence; sensemaking; symbolic management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930804684     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840615575190     Document Type: Article

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