Social Impact Investing in Germany: Current Impediments from Investors’ and Social Entrepreneurs’ Perspectives

Voluntas

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1638-1668

  Glänzel, Gunnar ^a   Scheuerle, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Institutional logics; Social enterprise; Social entrepreneurship; Social impact investment; Venture philanthropy

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; ENTREPRENEUR; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK;

GERMANY;

EID: 84937611466     PISSN: 09578765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11266-015-9621-z     Document Type: Article

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