The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook.

The article presents an account of the book "The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook," edited by Walter W. Powell. The book is an important addition to the literature on non-profit organizations. It is an invaluable reference book, which consists of 24 essays, and the contributors include nearly all the leading scholars in the U.S. who were engaged in research on non-profits in the early to mid-1980s.