Collaboration Between Nonprofit and Business Sectors: A Framework to Guide Strategy Development for Nonprofit Organizations

Voluntas

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 657-678

  AL Tabbaa, Omar ^a   Leach, Desmond ^a   March, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross sector collaboration; Nonprofit; Organizational sustainability; Strategic management; Strategy development

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; MANAGEMENT; NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84900795483     PISSN: 09578765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11266-013-9357-6     Document Type: Article

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