Designing a global standardized methodology for measuring social entrepreneurship activity: The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor social entrepreneurship study

Small Business Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 693-714

  Lepoutre, Jan ^a   Justo, Rachida ^b   Terjesen, Siri ^c   Bosma, Niels ^d,e  

^a VLERICK BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Belgium)

^b IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e Global Entrepreneurship Research Association   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross country; GEM; Global entrepreneurship monitor; Social entrepreneurship; Social entrepreneurship activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873748365     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-011-9398-4     Document Type: Article

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