The study of the nonprofit enterprise : theories and approaches / edited by Helmut K. Anheier and Avner Ben-Ner.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, [2003], ©2003.
Description
xvii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Series
    Nonprofit and civil society studies. [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "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."--BOOK JACKET.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Pt. I. Introduction
    • Ch. 1. The Theory of Nonprofit Organizations Revisited / Avner Ben-Ner and Benedetto Gui
    • Ch. 2. The Economics of the Third Sector: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach / Alberto Bacchiega and Carlo Borzaga
    • Pt. II. The Major Theories
    • Ch. 3. Public Good Theories of the Nonprofit Sector: Weisbrod Revisited / Bruce R. Kingma
    • Ch. 4. The Public Goods Theory Revisited: Comments on Kingma's Revisitation of Weisbrod / Al Slivinski
    • Ch. 5. Trust, Repute, and the Role of Nonprofit Enterprise / Andreas Ortmann and Mark Schlesinger
    • Ch. 6. The Role of Trust in Nonprofit Enterprise / Henry Hansmann
    • Ch. 7. Stakeholder Theories of the Nonprofit Sector: One Cut at the Economic Literature / Michael Krashinsky
    • Ch. 8. Entrepreneurship in Nonprofit Organizations: Its Role in Theory and in the Real World Nonprofit Sector / Christoph Badelt
    • Ch. 9. Entrepreneurs, Managers, and the Nonprofit Enterprise / Dennis R. Young
    • Ch. 10. Voluntary Failure Theory and Nonprofit-Government Partnership / Julian Wolpert
    • Ch. 11. Voluntary Failure Theory Correctly Viewed / Lester M. Salamon
    • Ch. 12. State, Subject, Space: Silences in Institutionalist Theories of Nonprofit-Government Relations / Jennifer Wolch
    • Ch. 13. The Behavior of Organizations / Joseph Galaskiewicz and Wolfgang Bielefeld
    • Ch. 14. Are Nonprofit Organizations Different? / Evelyn Brody
    • Pt. III. Comparisons and Implications
    • Ch. 15. Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector: A Comparative Perspectives of Structure and Change / Helmut K. Anheier
    • Ch. 16. Economic Theories of Nonprofit Organizations: An Evaluation / Richard Steinberg
    • Ch. 17. An Ecological Perspective on NonProfit Research / Paul DiMaggio.
    ISBN
    • 0306477033 (hb)
    • 0306478552 (pb)
    LCCN
    2002043449
    OCLC
    51304054
    RCP
    C - S
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