Social entrepreneurship as an algorithm: Is social enterprise sustainable?

E:CO Emergence: Complexity and Organization

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 65-85

  Trexler, Jeff ^a  

^a PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 65749105106     PISSN: 15213250     EISSN: 15217000     Source Type: Journal    
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