Optimization or Bricolage? Overcoming Resource Constraints in Global Social Entrepreneurship

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 26-49

  Desa, Geoffrey ^a   Basu, Sandip ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Munificence; Prominence; Public interest; Resource mobilization; Social entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874724348     PISSN: 19324391     EISSN: 1932443X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sej.1150     Document Type: Article

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