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4 What Research Merits Consideration?
Pages 17-18

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... • Surveys and perhaps other methods could illuminate how investors' expectations regarding their eventual exit affect the focus and development of entrepreneurial firms in different sectors. Finally, it was suggested that any serious effort to investigate the questions raised in the workshop involve a wider range of scholars including historians of markets and entrepreneurship, technology specialists, and students of social networks that influence firm origins, development, and strategies.
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