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The study of the nonprofit enterprise : theories and approaches

"This work will be essential to those in the nonprofit sector, organizational management and economics, political scientists, and other researchers working with the nonprofit and voluntary sector."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2003
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York, ©2003
xvii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780306477034, 9780306478550, 0306477033, 0306478552
51304054
I. Introduction.- 1 • The Theory of Nonprofit Organizations Revisited.- 2 • The Economics of the Third Sector: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach.- II. The Major Theories.- Public Good Theories.- 3 • Public Good Theories of the Nonprofit Sector: Weisbrod Revisited.- 4 • The Public Goods Theory Revisited: Comments on Kingma’s Revisitation of Weisbrod.- Trust-Related Theories.- 5 • Trust, Repute, and the Role of Nonprofit Enterprise.- 6 • The Role of Trust in Nonprofit Enterprise.- Stakeholder Theories.- 7 • Stakeholder Theories of the Nonprofit Sector: One Cut at the Economic Literature.- Entrepreneurship Theories.- 8 • Entrepreneurship in Nonprofit Organizations: Its Role in Theory and in the Real World Nonprofit Sector.- 9 • Entrepreneurs, Managers, and the Nonprofit Enterprise.- Voluntary Failure and Institutional Theories.- 10 • Voluntary Failure Theory and Nonprofit-Government Partnership.- 11 • Voluntary Failure Theory Correctly Viewed.- 12 • State, Subject, Space: Silences in Institutionalist Theories of Nonprofit-Government Relations.- Organizational Theory and Behavior.- 13 • The Behavior of Organizations.- 14 • Are Nonprofit Organizations Different?.- III. Comparisons and Implications.- 15 • Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector: A Comparative Perspectives of Structure and Change.- 16 • Economic Theories of Nonprofit Organizations: An Evaluation.- 17 • An Ecological Perspective on NonProfit Research.