Necessity entrepreneurship and competitive strategy

Small Business Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 37-54

  Block, Joern H ^a,b   Kohn, Karsten ^c,d   Miller, Danny ^e,f   Ullrich, Katrin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c KFW BANKENGRUPPE   (Germany)

^d IZA   (Germany)

^e HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competitive strategy; Cost leadership; Decomposition analysis; Necessity entrepreneurship; New venture strategy; Product differentiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939882021     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-014-9589-x     Document Type: Article

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