International Entrepreneurship: The Current Status of the Field and Future Research Agenda

Strategic Entrepreneurship: Creating a New Mindset

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 255-288

  Zahra, Shaker A ^a   George, Gerard ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual and empirical treatment; Future research; Integrated model; International entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045786202     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781405164085.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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