Charity for profit? Exploring factors associated with the commercialization of human service nonprofits

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 123-138

  Guo, Baorong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Charity; Commercialization; Human services; Nonprofits

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745117915     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764005282482     Document Type: Article

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