Building organizations to change communities: Educational entrepreneurs in poor urban areas

Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 379-399

  Beckman, Christine M ^a   Gatewood, Brooking ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203136232     Document Type: Chapter

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