Social enterprise: Is it the business of social work?

Australian Social Work

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 141-154

  Gray, Mel ^a   Healy, Karen ^a   Crofts, Penny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community services sector; Social enterprise; Social policy; Social work practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 85055299444     PISSN: 0312407X     EISSN: 14470748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0312-407X.2003.00060.x     Document Type: Article

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