What are social ventures? Toward a theoretical framework and empirical examination of successful social ventures

Non-Market Entrepreneurship: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 217-241

  Yitshaki, Ronit ^a   Lerner, Miri ^b   Sharir, Moshe ^c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF TEL AVIV YAFFO   (Israel)

^c RUPPIN ACADEMIC CENTER   (Israel)

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