Resource Mobilization in International Social Entrepreneurship: Bricolage as a Mechanism of Institutional Transformation

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 727-751

  Desa, Geoffrey ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84863882860     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2010.00430.x     Document Type: Article

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