Imagining and Rationalizing Opportunities: Inductive Reasoning and the Creation and Justification of New Ventures

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Academy of Management Review

• Publication date

  2010-10-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Business

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  DOI 10.5465/AMR.35.4.ZOK539
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