Innovation in business-community partnerships: Evaluating the impact of local enterprise and global investment models on poverty, bio-diversity and development

Corporate Governance

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 546-556

  Raufflet, Emmanuel ^a   Berranger, Alain ^b   Gouin, Jean François ^c  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Conservation; Poverty; Private sector organizations; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849112694     PISSN: 14720701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14720700810899266     Document Type: Article

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