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The Unicorn Phenomenon: An Embeddedness-Based View of Influencing Factors Cover

The Unicorn Phenomenon: An Embeddedness-Based View of Influencing Factors

By: Basel Hammoda and  Merle Küttim  
Open Access
|Nov 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjes-2024-0026 | Journal eISSN: 2674-4619 | Journal ISSN: 2674-4600
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