Tailoring business model innovation towards grand challenges: Employment of a transition management approach for the social enterprise “re-use centers”

Journal of Global Responsibility

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 289-311

  Gorissen, Leen ^a   Manshoven, Saskia ^a   Vrancken, Karl ^a,b  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Action learning; Organizational change; Resource management; Social entrepreneurship; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026954629     PISSN: 20412568     EISSN: 20412576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JGR-03-2014-0012     Document Type: Article

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