Assessing the usefulness of frameworks for sub-categorizing faith-based organizations: World Vision as a case study

Faith-based organizations (FBOs) make up one of the largest cohorts of organizations providing international development work around the globe. The extraordinary heterogeneous nature of FBOs is bewildering, and typologies and other methods have been developed to try and sub-categorize them or to dis...

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Main Author: Mitchell, Bob (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. [2016]
In: Pacifica
Year: 2016, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-70
RelBib Classification:CH Christianity and Society
RK Charity work
ZA Social sciences
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