Business models for people, planet (& profits): Exploring the phenomena of social business, a market-based approach to social value creation

Small Business Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 715-737

  Wilson, Fiona ^a   Post, James E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business models; Social business; Social enterprise; Social entrepreneurship; Social purpose business venture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873746645     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-011-9401-0     Document Type: Article

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