Decoupling revisited: Common pressures, divergent strategies in the U.S. nonprofit sector

Management (France)

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 468-501

  Bromley, Patricia ^a   Hwang, Hokyu ^b   Powell, Walter W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decoupling; New institutionalism; Nonprofits; Strategic planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874958797     PISSN: 12864892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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