What Makes Firms Embrace Risks? A Risk-Taking Capability Perspective

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  2016

• Venue

  Business Research Quarterly

• Publication date

  2016-07-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics

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  DOI 10.1016/j.brq.2016.01.002
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