Nonprofit organizations and welfare-to-work: Environmental turbulence and organizational change

Administration in Social Work

Volumn 28, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 111-135

  Mulroy, Elizabeth A ^a   Tamburo, Melissa Back ^b  

^a Dept of Human Service Management ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonprofit management; Organizational change; Social environment; Social policy implementation; Welfare to work

Indexed keywords

EID: 4444318480     PISSN: 03643107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J147v28n03_06     Document Type: Article

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