Greening Goliaths versus emerging Davids - Theorizing about the role of incumbents and new entrants in sustainable entrepreneurship

Journal of Business Venturing

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 481-492

  Hockerts, Kai ^a   Wüstenhagen, Rolf ^b  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Corporate sustainability; Entrepreneurship; Incumbents; Start ups

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955370297     PISSN: 08839026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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