Nonprofit Virtual Accountability: An Index and Its Application

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1049-1067

  Dumont, Georgette E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

communication; nonprofit accountability; Web 2.0; web sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884892397     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764013481285     Document Type: Article

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