Kicking Off Social Entrepreneurship: How A Sustainability Orientation Influences Crowdfunding Success

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 738-767

  Calic, Goran ^a   Mosakowski, Elaine ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Creativity; Crowdfunding; Entrepreneurship; Legitimacy; Social entrepreneurship; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963904712     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joms.12201     Document Type: Article

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