Do social enterprises finance their investments differently from for-profit firms? The case of social residential services in Italy

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 174-189

  Fedele, Alessandro ^a   Miniaci, Raffaele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capital structure; For profit and nonprofit enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958763068     PISSN: 19420676     EISSN: 19420684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2010.511812     Document Type: Article

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