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Power law distributions in entrepreneurship: Implications for theory and research

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Crawford, G. Christopher, Aguinis, Herman, Lichtenstein, Benyamin, Davidsson, Per, McKelvey, Bill·2015·Journal of Business Venturing
DOI 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2015.01.001
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Crawford, G. C., Aguinis, H., Lichtenstein, B., Davidsson, P., & McKelvey, B.
Affiliations
  • Ohio University (US)
  • Indiana University Bloomington (US)
  • University of Massachusetts Boston (US)
  • Queensland University of Technology (AU)
  • Kedge Business School (FR)
Corresponding author
Crawford, G. Christopher
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Venue
Journal of Business Venturing
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2015-09
Volume
30
Issue
5
Pages
696-713
ISSN
0883-9026 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.jbusvent.2015.01.001
OpenAlex
W2069213302
Cited by
195
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FWCI
31.75
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Language
en
Open access
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www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
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  • Journal of Business Venturing (publishedVersion)
  • QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Australian Research Council (DP0666616, LP0776845)
  • National Australia Bank
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management of Technology and Innovation › Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Accounting › Private Equity and Venture Capital
Keywords
power-law distribution, entrepreneurship theory, skewed distributions, outliers, nascent firms, young firms, resource-based view, non-Gaussian distributions

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