Imprinting: Toward A Multilevel Theory

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  The Academy of Management Annals

• Publication date

  2013-03-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Business

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  DOI 10.1080/19416520.2013.766076
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