Crescive entrepreneurship in complex social problems: Institutional conditions for entrepreneurial engagement

Journal of Business Venturing

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 69-82

  Dorado, Silvia ^a   Ventresca, Marc J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A. O. Hirschman; Development entrepreneurship; Institutional entrepreneurship; Social entrepreneurship; Wicked problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869134794     PISSN: 08839026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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