Nonprofit's use of awards to improve and demonstrate performance: Valuable discipline or burdensome formalities?

Voluntas

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 329-353

  Paton, Rob ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit; Institutional theory; Investors in people; ISO 9000; Management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010847041     PISSN: 09578765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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