Social alliances: Business and social enterprise collaboration for social transformation

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1710-1720

  Sakarya, Sema ^a   Bodur, Muzaffer ^a   Yildirim Öktem, Özlem ^a   Selekler Göksen, Nisan ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cross sector collaboration; CSR; Inequality of opportunity; Social alliances; Social entrepreneurship; Social impact; Social transformation; Social value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870301023     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2012.02.012     Document Type: Article

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