Where are they now? tracking the longitudinal evolution of environmental businesses from the 1990s

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 238-250

  Holt, Diane ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecopreneurs; Entrepreneurs; Mergers; Small business; Social enterprise

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; LITERATURE REVIEW; MERGER;

EID: 79953739650     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.697     Document Type: Article

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