Resource Constraints or Cultural Conformity? Nonprofit Relationships with Businesses

Voluntas

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 581-605

  Suárez, David F ^a   Hwang, Hokyu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business; Collaboration; Institutional theory; Resource dependence

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; RATIONALIZATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84881020349     PISSN: 09578765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11266-012-9267-z     Document Type: Article

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