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Volume 33, Issue 6
November-December 2022
Pages 2085-2540, C2-C3
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- Received:April 03, 2020
- Accepted:October 13, 2021
- Published Online:January 14, 2022
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Travis Howell, Christopher Bingham, Bradley Hendricks (2022) Going Alone or Together? A Configurational Analysis of Solo Founding vs. Cofounding. Organization Science 33(6):2421-2450.
https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2021.1548
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The authors thank Filippo Carlo Wezel (editor), three anonymous reviewers, Howard Aldrich, Mahka Moeen, Timothy Ott, Michelle Rogan, and seminar participants at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of California Irvine, Bocconi University, Purdue University, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Georgia, and Pennsylvania State University. The authors also thank the various entrepreneurial support organizations and entrepreneurs who were the subjects of our studies.
