Volunteers' Psychological Contracts: Extending Traditional Views

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1072-1091

  Vantilborgh, Tim ^a   Bidee, Jemima ^a   Pepermans, Roland ^a   Willems, Jurgen ^a   Huybrechts, Gert ^a   Jegers, Marc ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ideological psychological contract; nonprofit organizations; psychological contract; values; volunteers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869407428     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764011427598     Document Type: Article

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