Determining Factors in Online Transparency of NGOs: A Spanish Case Study

Voluntas

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 661-683

  Gálvez Rodríguez, María del Mar ^a   Caba Pérez, María del Carmen ^a   Godoy, Manuel López ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Best practice; Disclosure; NGOs; The Internet; Transparency

Indexed keywords

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; INTERNET; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL IMPACT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

SPAIN;

EID: 84864107281     PISSN: 09578765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11266-011-9229-x     Document Type: Article

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