This study presumes the resource-based view of firms (Barney (1991); Kogut and Zander (1992); Conner and Prahalad (1996); Grant (1996)) and its extended literature related to academic startups (Landry et al. (2006); Knockaert et al. (2010); Rasmussen and Borch, (2010); Huynh et al. (2017); Corsi et al. (2019)) to assume that, as with entrepreneurs, startup readiness by academic researchers will increase when either the resources or their coordination will be appropriate or sufficient.
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Q1: While using the above sample in your assignment, how many of these references do you have to use?
- A. Only the source reference is sufficient
- B. Three of them
- C. None of them
- D. Multiple References
