Uncertainty types and transitions in the entrepreneurial process

Organization Science

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 840-856

  Packard, Mark D ^a   Clark, Brent B ^b   Kleinc, Peter G ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Decision making; Entrepreneurship; Process; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027353138     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2017.1143     Document Type: Article

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