Building social business models: Lessons from the grameen experience

Long Range Planning

Volumn 43, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 308-325

  Yunus, Muhammad ^a   Moingeon, Bertrand ^a   Lehmann Ortega, Laurence ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION; BUSINESS MODELS; LESSONS LEARNED; NEW BUSINESS MODELS; VALUE CONSTELLATION; VALUE PROPOSITION;

SHAREHOLDERS;

PROFITABILITY;

BUSINESS; GRAMEEN BANK; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; INNOVATION; MICROFINANCE; STAKEHOLDER;

EID: 77952583683     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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