Heading Toward a More Social Future? Scenarios for Social Enterprises in Germany

Business and Society

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 56-89

  Engelke, Henning ^a   Mauksch, Stefanie ^b   Darkow, Inga Lena ^c   von der Gracht, Heiko ^a  

^a EBS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Delphi survey; futures studies; scenarios; social enterprise; social entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949883583     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650314523096     Document Type: Article

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