International Nonprofit Collaboration: Examining the Role of Homophily

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 587-608

  Atouba, Yannick C ^a   Shumate, Michelle ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

exponential random graphs models; homophily; international NGOs; networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930744562     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: 15527395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764014524991     Document Type: Article

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