Institutional entrepreneurship, governance, and poverty: Insights from emergency medical response servicesin India

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 39-65

  George, Gerard ^a   Rao Nicholson, Rekha ^b   Corbishley, Christopher ^a   Bansal, Rahul ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Base of the pyramid; Business models; Coordination; Developing economy; Emerging economies; Entrepreneurship; Governance; Health; Healthcare; India; Institutional entrepreneurship; Poverty; Public Private Partnership (PPP)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939890803     PISSN: 02174561     EISSN: 15729958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10490-014-9377-9     Document Type: Article

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