Considerations For Scaling a Social Enterprise: Key Factors and Elements

Considerations For Scaling a Social Enterprise: Key Factors and Elements

The Irish Journal of Management

Volume 42 (2023): Issue 1 (July 2023)

By:

Clodagh O’Reilly, Lucia Walsh and Ziene Mottiar

Open Access

|Aug 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijm-2023-0008 | Journal eISSN: 2451-2834 | Journal ISSN: 1649-248X

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Language: English

Page range: 16 - 32

Published on: Aug 16, 2023

Published by: Irish Academy of Management

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 3 times per year

Keywords:

Social enterprise,

Social innovation,

Scaling,

Social impact,

Social enterprise scaling model

Related subjects:

Business and economics,

Business management,

Marketing, sales, customer relations,

Management, organization, corporate governance,

Entrepreneurship,

Human resources, labor practice, job and career

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