Social finance and crowdfunding for social enterprises: a public-private case study providing legitimacy and leverage

Venture Capital

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 271-286

  Lehner, Othmar M ^a   Nicholls, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crowdfunding; impact investing; philanthropy; public private partnerships; social enterprise; social finance; third sector; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904419572     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691066.2014.925305     Document Type: Article

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