Dealing with failure: Serial entrepreneurs and the costs of changing industries between ventures

Academy of Management Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1785-1803

  Eggers, J P ^a   Song, Lin ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Central University of Finance and Economics   (United States)

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EID: 84975709079     PISSN: 00014273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/amj.2014.0050     Document Type: Article

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