Revitalizing the contribution non-profit organizations can make to the provision of human services

International Journal of Social Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 491-511

  Wallis, Joe ^a   Dollery, Brian ^b,c  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^c Department of Economics ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Non profit organizations; Public policy; Service failures; Voluntary welfare organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744801114     PISSN: 03068293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03068290610673261     Document Type: Article

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