Life on the edge: Navigating the competitive tensions between the 'social' and the 'economic' in the social economy and in its relations to the mainstream

Journal of Economic Geography

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 493-510

  Hudson, Ray ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition; Complexity; Neo liberalism; Social economy; Social enterprise; Varieties of capitalism

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); COMPETITIVENESS; COMPLEXITY; NEOLIBERALISM; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION;

EID: 67649199547     PISSN: 14682702     EISSN: 14682710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbp005     Document Type: Article

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