Toward a theory of the entrepreneurial process

Small Business Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 475-484

  Leyden, Dennis P ^a   Link, Albert N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Creation and discovery; Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Social networks; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941633637     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-014-9606-0     Document Type: Article

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