Religious Pluralism and Organizational Diversity: An Empirical Test in the City of Zwolle, the Netherlands, 1851–1914

This study addresses the question as to why there are so many different kinds of organizations. It puts forth the general proposition that organizational diversity in a community is isomorphic to the heterogeneity of the composition of its population. Given that religion is a fundamental category of...

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Authors: Boone, Christophe (Author) ; Brouwer, Aleid (Author) ; Jacobs, J. Y. H. A. 1946- (Author) ; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen (Author) ; de Zwaan, Matthijs (Author)
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 2012
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 2012, Volume: 73, Issue: 2, Pages: 150-173
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