Forgotten or not? Home country embeddedness and returnee entrepreneurship

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Forgotten or not? Home country embeddedness and returnee entrepreneurship. / Lin, Daomi; Zheng, Wei; Lu, Jiangyong; Liu, Xiaohui; Wright, Mike .

In: Journal of World Business, Vol. 54, No. 1, 01.2019, p. 1-13.

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Harvard

Lin, D, Zheng, W, Lu, J, Liu, X & Wright, M 2019, 'Forgotten or not? Home country embeddedness and returnee entrepreneurship', Journal of World Business, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2018.08.003

APA

Lin, D., Zheng, W., Lu, J., Liu, X., & Wright, M. (2019). Forgotten or not? Home country embeddedness and returnee entrepreneurship. Journal of World Business, 54(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2018.08.003

Vancouver

Lin D, Zheng W, Lu J, Liu X, Wright M. Forgotten or not? Home country embeddedness and returnee entrepreneurship. Journal of World Business. 2019 Jan;54(1):1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2018.08.003

Author

Lin, Daomi ; Zheng, Wei ; Lu, Jiangyong ; Liu, Xiaohui ; Wright, Mike . / Forgotten or not? Home country embeddedness and returnee entrepreneurship. In: Journal of World Business. 2019 ; Vol. 54, No. 1. pp. 1-13.

Bibtex

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