1st Edition
Organizing Logics, Nonprofit Management and Change Rethinking Power, Persuasion and Authority
196 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
196 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
196 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Nonprofit organizations are conventionally positioned as generators of social and cultural forms of capital for the common good. As such they occupy a different space to other types of organizations such as corporate firms that exist primarily to generate economic capital for private owners/shareholders.
Recent years, however, have seen professionalization promoted widely by funders,... Read more
1. Introduction. Part I - A tale of Two Rhetorics: Organizational life in the Milieu of Corporate and Community Logics. 2. An Organization in Search of Purpose. 3. Managers in Search of Purpose. 4. Symbols, Rhetoric and Strategizing. Part II - Transforming Organizational Trajectory. 5. Structuring for Purpose. 6. Rewarding Loyality to the (New) Cause. 7. Immobilizing Resistance and Overcoming Dissent. 8. Leading Away from Purspose and Getting Away with It. 9. Conclusion.
Biography
Tracey M. Coule, PhD, is Professor of Nonprofit Work and Organization at Sheffield Hallam University.
Carole Bain, DBA, is Executive Education Fellow at the University of Sheffield Management School.
