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The study of the nonprofit enterprise : theories and approaches

Helmut K. Anheier, Avner Ben-Ner
"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
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Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York, ©2003
Nonprofit and civil society studies
xvii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780306477034, 9780306478550, 0306477033, 0306478552
51304054
Associations sans but lucratif Recherche
Niet-commerciële organisaties
Nonprofit organizations Research
Nonprofit-Bereich
PART I. INTRODUCTION1(48)
Chapter 1 The Theory of Nonprofit Organizations Revisited
3(24)
Avner Ben-Ner and Benedetto Gui
Chapter 2 The Economics of the Third Sector: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach
27(22)
Alberto Bacchiega and Carlo Borzaga
PART II. THE MAJOR THEORIES49(196)
Public Good Theories
51(24)
Chapter 3 Public Good Theories of the Nonprofit Sector: Weisbrod Revisited
53(14)
Bruce R. Kingma
Chapter 4 The Public Goods Theory Revisited: Comments on Kingma's Revisitation of Weisbrod
67(8)
Al Slivinski
Trust-Related Theories
75(48)
Chapter 5 Trust, Repute, and the Role of Nonprofit Enterprise
77(38)
Andreas Ortmann and Mark Schlesinger
Chapter 6 The Role of Trust in Nonprofit Enterprise
115(8)
Henry Hausmann
Stakeholder Theories
123(14)
Chapter 7 Stakeholder Theories of the Nonprofit Sector: One Cut at the Economic Literature
125(12)
Michael Krashinshy
Entrepreneurship Theories
137(32)
Chapter 8 Entrepreneurship in Nonprofit Organizations: Its Role in Theory and in the Real World Nonprofit Sector
139(22)
Christoph Badelt
Chapter 9 Entrepreneurs, Managers, and the Nonprofit Enterprise
161(8)
Dennis R. Young
Voluntary Failure and Institutional Theories
169(34)
Chapter 10 Voluntary Failure Theory and Nonprofit-Government Partnership
171(12)
Julian Wolpert
Chapter 11 Voluntary Failure Theory Correctly Viewed
183(4)
Lester M. Salamon
Chapter 12 State, Subject, Space: Silences in Institutionalist Theories of Nonprofit-Government Relations
187(16)
Jennifer Wolch
Organizational Theory and Behavior
203(42)
Chapter 13 The Behavior of Organizations
205(34)
Joseph Galashiewicz and Wolfgang Bielefeld
Chapter 14 Are Nonprofit Organizations Different?
239(8)
Evelyn Brody
PART III. COMPARISONS AND IMPLICATIONS245(76)
Chapter 15 Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector: A Comparative Perspectives of Structure and Change
247(30)
Helmut K. Anheier
Chapter 16 Economic Theories of Nonprofit Organizations: An Evaluation
277(34)
Richard Steinberg
Chapter 17 An Ecological Perspective on NonProfit Research
311(10)
Paul DiMaggio
Index321
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