Value as a Self-Sustaining Mechanism: Why Some Nonprofit Organizations Are Different From and Similar to Private and Public Organizations

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 985-1005

  Knutsen, Wenjue Lu ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

nonprofit form of organizations; nonprofit theory; sustainability of nonprofit organizations; value in nonprofit organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884898883     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764012457244     Document Type: Article

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