How permeable is the nonprofit sector? linking resources, demand, and government provision to the distribution of organizations across nonprofit mission-based fields

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 674-695

  Stater, Keely Jones ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Nonprofit ecology; Representativeness; Supply and demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955154919     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764009337332     Document Type: Article

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