An organizational ecology of national self-help/mutual-aid organizations

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 598-621

  Archibald, Matthew E ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Organizational ecology; Resource partitioning; Self help mutual aid

Indexed keywords

EID: 36049022405     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764006297666     Document Type: Article

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