Venture capital, CEOs' sources of power, and innovation novelty at different life stages of a new venture

Organization Science

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 336-353

  Park, Haemin Dennis ^a   Tzabbar, Daniel ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CEO power; Innovation novelty; Technology entrepreneurship; Venture capital; Venture life cycle

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963619558     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2016.1054     Document Type: Article

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