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Building the Knowledge Base of Nonprofit Management:
A Searchable Database
Historical research for the nonprofit sector
Abstract
Because there are many possible uses of history and conceptions of
what constitutes historical inquiry, there can be no single
description of 'historical research for the nonprofit sector.'
Nonprofit researchers, like all nonprofit leaders, cannot avoid having
views of historical development; neither can they avoid the necessity
of drawing conclusions from incomplete and indeterminate evidence,
just as all historians must do. Students of the nonprofit sector might
want to pay particular attention to questions raised by legal and
economic history (others have made much of the relevance of social and
intellectual history). Most generally, historical materials and
perspectives are especially relevant to the education of nonprofit
leaders.
Journal
(2006)
vol16
no4
pages451-466
Categories
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Classification and Research
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Research Methods
