Non-Governmental and Not-for-Profit Organizational Effectiveness: A Modern Synthesis

Voluntas

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 434-457

  Lecy, Jesse D ^a   Schmitz, Hans Peter ^b   Swedlund, Haley ^c  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Non for profit organizations; Non governmental organizations; Structured literature review

Indexed keywords

INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; LITERATURE REVIEW; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84858730184     PISSN: 09578765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11266-011-9204-6     Document Type: Article

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