Entrepreneurship Amid Concurrent Institutional Constraints in Less Developed Countries

Business and Society

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 934-969

  Khoury, Theodore A ^a   Prasad, Ajnesh ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

bricolage; cultural entrepreneurship; development; formal institutions; informal institutions; institutional constraints; institutional voids; Palestine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981217055     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 15524205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650314567641     Document Type: Article

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