Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations

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1. Accountability and Effectiveness Evaluation in Nonprofit Organizations

   By James Cutt, Vic Murray

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations

   This unique volume provides new perspectives on assessing the performance of nonprofit organizations whilst meeting the information needs of decision-makers, both internal (such as resource-providers, regulators and clients), and external (including boards, managers, staff and volunteers). Whilst...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Governance and Regulation in the Third Sector

   International Perspectives

   Edited by Susan Phillips, Steven Rathgeb Smith

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations

   Governance and Regulation in the Third Sector brings together scholars and experienced practitioners from different countries to investigate the relationship between regulation and relational governance for the third sector in a comparative context. Each chapter reviews recent regulatory changes in...

   Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge
3. Human Resource Management in Nonprofit Organizations

   By Alina McCandless Baluch

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations

   Human resource management (HRM) can aid nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in facing uncertain, changing environments of funding pressures, increasing competition and demand for services as well as internal challenges. As the distinguishing features of NPOs can render the professionalization of HRM...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Third Sector in Europe

   Prospects and challenges

   Edited by Stephen P. Osborne

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations

   The role of the Third Sector within European society is an extremely topical subject, as both governments and the EU continue to consider the role these organizations can play in providing essential public services. This book presents contemporary research into this emerging area, exploring the...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
5. Voluntary Organizations and Public Service Delivery

   Edited by Ian Cunningham, Philip James

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations

   Voluntary Organizations and Public Sector Delivery examines how aspects of voluntary sector employment are affected by its engagement with the growing trend to the market-based outsourcing in the delivery of public services within industrialized countries. The volume draws together a team of...

   Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge
6. Strategic Positioning in Voluntary and Charitable Organizations

   By Celine Chew

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations

   Rekindling the critical analysis of the adoption of generic commercial (for-profit) management approaches in the non-profit context, Strategic Positioning in Voluntary and Charitable Organizations reveals that charities are positioning themselves in their evolving external environment in...

   Published March 31st 2009 by Routledge
7. A Democratic Architecture for the Welfare State

   By Victor A. Pestoff

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations

   The welfare state faces various challenges in Scandinavia and many European countries today, including a poor work environment in the public sector, a growing democracy deficit, and demographic obstacles. In this new book, Victor A. Pestoff argues that the state cannot resolve these challenges...

   Published October 26th 2008 by Routledge
8. Employment Relations in the Voluntary Sector

   Struggling to Care

   By Ian Cunningham

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations

   This new book addresses the topical issues surrounding employment relations in UK voluntary organizations that operate within the quasi-market of social care. Combining an analysis of the established literature with in-depth qualitative field work, Ian Cunningham explores the nature of power...

   Published May 11th 2008 by Routledge
9. Managerial Economics of Non-Profit Organizations

   By Marc Jegers

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations

   This is the first book of its kind to bring together the microeconomic insights on the functioning of non-profit organizations, complementing the wide range of books on the management of non-profit organizations by instead focusing on both theoretical and empirical work. Jegers begins by...

   Published February 13th 2008 by Routledge
10. Social Enterprise

    At the Crossroads of Market, Public Policies and Civil Society

    Edited by Marthe Nyssens

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations

    In one of its previous books, the EMES European Research Network traced the most significant developments in 'social entrepreneurship' emerging inside the third sector in Europe. Building upon that seminal work, this volume presents the results of an extensive research project carried out over...

    Published September 10th 2006 by Routledge