Sustainability: what the entrepreneurship educators think

Education and Training

Volumn 57, Issue 8-9, 2015, Pages 834-852

  Wyness, Lynne ^a   Jones, Paul ^b   Klapper, Rita ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; Entrepreneurship; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944580237     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/ET-03-2015-0019     Document Type: Article

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