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The study of the nonprofit enterprise : theories and approaches

Year

2003

Author(s)

  • Anheier, Helmut
  • Ben-Ner, Avner

Keywords

  • Research
  • Economics
  • Nonprofit organizations

Call Number

CIVIL SOCIETY 338 .74072 S93381

Description

  • Part 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 / Albert Bacchiega and Carlo Borzaga
  • Part 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 vailure 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
  • Part III. Comparisons and implications
  • Ch. 15. Dimensions of the nonprofit sector : a comparative perspectives (sic) 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

Publisher

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers

Series

Nonprofit and civil society studies

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