Ruef, Martin.

The entrepreneurial group : social identities, relations, and collective action / Martin Ruef. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010. - xviii, 288 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - The Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship . - Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-280) and index.

Who is an entrepreneur? -- Images of entrepreneurial groups -- Empirical puzzles -- Group formation -- Boundaries of the startup firm -- Allocation of rewards and control -- Effort and opportunism -- Innovation -- Goals and group dynamics -- Implications and extensions.

9780691138091 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0691138095 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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Entrepreneurship--Social aspects--United States.
Businesspeople--United States.
Social groups--United States.
Industrial sociology--United States.

HB615 / .R84 2010

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