Identifying competencies of volunteer board members of community sports clubs

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 213-235

  Balduck, Anne Line ^a   van Rossem, Annick ^b   Buelens, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VLERICK BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Board member; Boards; Cognitive maps; Competencies; Emotional intelligence

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749304859     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764009334306     Document Type: Article

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