Entrepreneurial Teams and Venture Growth

The Blackwell Handbook of Entrepreneurship

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 287-307

  Birley, Sue ^a   Stockley, Simon ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Defining the team; Demographic approach; Entrepreneurial team; Framework for analysis; Growth through networks and alliances; Impact; Penrose and schumpeter; Resource based perspective; Role of experience; Team size

Indexed keywords

EID: 85046050182     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781405164214.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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