The role and characteristics of social entrepreneurs in contemporary rural cooperative development in China: case studies of rural social entrepreneurship

Asia Pacific Business Review

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 379-400

  Lan, Hong ^a   Zhu, Ying ^b   Ness, David ^b   Xing, Ke ^b   Schneider, Kris ^c  

^a RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

China; cooperatives; leadership; rural community; social entrepreneurship; transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926123059     PISSN: 13602381     EISSN: 1743792X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13602381.2014.929300     Document Type: Article

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