Scaling Social Impact: Building Sustainable Social Ventures at the Base-of-the-Pyramid

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 146-174

  Desa, Geoffrey ^a   Koch, James L ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emerging economies; process model; Scale; social entrepreneurship; social impact

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901482685     PISSN: 19420676     EISSN: 19420684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2013.871325     Document Type: Article

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