Life's Principles as a Framework for Designing Successful Social Enterprises

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 218-230

  Patel, Samir ^a   Mehta, Khanjan ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

biomimicry; humanitarian engineering; Life's Principles; social entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859412560     PISSN: 19420676     EISSN: 19420684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2011.592407     Document Type: Article

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