To give or not to give, that is the question: How methodology is destiny in Dutch giving data

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 533-540

  Bekkers, René ^a   Wiepking, Pamala ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Methodology; Philanthropy; Questionnaire design; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746638693     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764006288286     Document Type: Article

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