The Current state of research on sustainable entrepreneurship

International Journal of Business Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 163-172

  Fellnhofer, Katharina ^a   Kraus, Sascha ^b   Bouncken, Ricarda B ^c  

^a New Design University   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIECHTENSTEIN   (Liechtenstein)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Sustainability; Sustainable development; Sustainable entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937714160     PISSN: 15551296     EISSN: 23788577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18374/IJBR-14-3.11     Document Type: Article

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