How Social Entrepreneurs Facilitate the Adoption of New Industry Practices

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 821-845

  Waldron, Theodore L ^a   Fisher, Greg ^b   Pfarrer, Michael ^c  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Rhetoric; Social change; Social cognition; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959419665     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joms.12187     Document Type: Article

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