Managing expressive and instrumental accountabilities in nonprofit and voluntary organizations: A qualitative investigation

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 588-610

  Knutsen, Wenjue Lu ^a   Brower, Ralph S ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expressive accountability; Instrumental accountability; Instrumental and expressive dimensions; Nonprofit accountability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955130657     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764009359943     Document Type: Article

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