Success and Failure of Nonprofit Organizations: Theoretical Foundations, Empirical Evidence, and Future Research

Voluntas

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1509-1538

  Helmig, Bernd ^a   Ingerfurth, Stefan ^a   Pinz, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Failure; Nonprofit organizations; Organizational death; Organizational performance; Research agenda; Success

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FUTURE PROSPECT; KNOWLEDGE; NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RESEARCH WORK; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84920987318     PISSN: 09578765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11266-013-9402-5     Document Type: Article

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