Sustainable Corporate Entrepreneurship: Performance and Strategies Toward Innovation

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 521-535

  Provasnek, Anna Katharina ^a   Schmid, Erwin ^a   Geissler, Bernhard ^b   Steiner, Gerald ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

entrepreneurship theory; innovation; management strategy; performance; sustainable corporate entrepreneurship; sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997142664     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1934     Document Type: Article

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