Sustainable Entrepreneurship: A Convergent Process Model

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-17

  Belz, Frank Martin ^a   Binder, Julia Katharina ^b  

^a TUM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurial process; entrepreneurship; social entrepreneurship; sustainable development; sustainable entrepreneurship; triple bottom line

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; MODELING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84923607092     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1887     Document Type: Article

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