Social networks, recruitment, and volunteering: Are social capital effects conditional on recruitment?

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 476-496

  Paik, Anthony ^a   Navarre Jackson, Layana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

civic engagement; recruitment; social capital; volunteering

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955534898     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764009354647     Document Type: Article

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