Can the market deliver the goods?: A critical review of the social enterprise agenda

Enterprise, Deprivation and Social Exclusion: The Role of Small Business in Addressing Social and Economic Inequalities

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 239-253

  Whittam, Geoff ^a   Birch, Kean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

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