How broker organizations can facilitate public-private partnerships for development

European Management Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 32-46

  Stadtler, Lea ^a   Probst, Gilbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brokerage; Collaboration; Corporate social responsibility; Learning; Public private partnership; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 83555176340     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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