Social enterprises and corporate enterprises: Fundamental differences and defining features

Journal of Entrepreneurship

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-32

  Trivedi, Chitvan ^a   Stokols, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

corporate entrepreneurship; NGOs; NPOs; social entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751559361     PISSN: 09713557     EISSN: 09730745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/097135571002000101     Document Type: Article

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