1st Edition

The Dark Side of Nonprofit Management Trends, Changes, and Paradoxes

By Ewa Bogacz-Wojtanowska Copyright 2027
272 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a critical examination of contemporary nonprofit organisations, challenging prevailing assumptions about their inherently positive social role. It explores the evolving functions, contradictions and emerging “anti-functions” of the third sector within broader socio-economic transformations. Drawing on perspectives from critical management studies, it analyses how processes such... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1. Critical theory as a reflective lens for researching the third sector

Chapter 2. Towards hybridisation of forms and blurring of inter-sectoral boundaries

Chapter 3. Global Currents of Change: Neoliberalism and Neocolonialism as Deep Structural Forces Transforming the Third Sector

Chapter 4. Inner Dynamics and the Evolution of the Third Sector: Adopting Business and Project-Based Methods

Chapter 5: Changes and Critiques of the Third Sector’s Functions  

Chapter 6. Hidden Challenges in the Third Sector – Unveiling Nonprofit Management Irregularities

Chapter 7. Navigating Leadership Challenges, Succession, Workforce Management, and Gender Issues in Third Sector

Chapter 8. The Paradoxes of Nonprofit Management

Conclusion

Biography

Ewa Bogacz-Wojtanowska is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Management and Social Communication, and Head of the Chair of the Theory and Practice of Organising at the Institute of Public Affairs, Jagiellonian University, Poland.