The Study of nonprofit enterprise : theories and approaches

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