Emerging Structures for Social Enterprises Within Nonprofits: An Institutional Logics Perspective

The development of social enterprise initiatives within nonprofit organizations is a complex activity and the disruptive challenges of accommodating commercial processes within social organizations are often underestimated. This article is based on research that tracks four nonprofit organizations a...

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Published in:Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 2018-06, Vol.47 (3), p.474-492
Main Authors: Fitzgerald, Tricia, Shepherd, Deborah
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