Making Sense of Ecopreneurs' Decisions to Sell Up

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 71-85

  Kearins, Kate ^a   Collins, Eva ^b  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ecopreneurship; Enterprise development; Sensemaking

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84855352183     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.710     Document Type: Article

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