Who serves?: Predicting placement of management graduates on nonprofit, government, and business boards

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1076-1085

  Tschirhart, Mary ^a   Reed, Kira Kristal ^b   Freeman, Sarah J ^c   Anker, Alison Louie ^d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Board; Composition; Management education; Nonprofit

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449581009     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764008327244     Document Type: Article

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