Implementing Strategies for Corporate Entrepreneurship: A Knowledge-Based Perspective

Strategic Entrepreneurship: Creating a New Mindset

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 173-199

  Kazanjian, Robert K ^a   Drazin, Robert ^a   Glynn, Mary Ann ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate entrepreneurship; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045792242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781405164085.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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