Sustainability in entrepreneurship: A tale of two logics

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 322-344

  de Clercq, Dirk ^a   Voronov, Maxim ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

agency; habitus; institutional logics; structure; sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961194979     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242610372460     Document Type: Article

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