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2 - Grief over entrepreneurial failures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2016

Dean A. Shepherd
Affiliation:
Indiana University
Trenton Williams
Affiliation:
Indiana University
Marcus Wolfe
Affiliation:
Ball State University, Indiana
Holger Patzelt
Affiliation:
Technische Universität München
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Learning from Entrepreneurial Failure
Emotions, Cognitions, and Actions
, pp. 7 - 35
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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