The Challenges of Combining Social and Commercial Enterprise

By Gregory J Dees and Jaan Elias

A comparison of nonprofit and for-profit business organizations at a time when business is considered the model of efficiency and innovation provides significant insights into the norms that characterize these institutions, their functions in society and the viability of combining commercial methods with social objectives. Norman E. Bowie has written an excellent volume called ‘University-Business Partnerships: An Assessment,’ which is evaluated.

Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol.8, issue 1, p165 – 178, Jan 1998
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