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Voluntary and non-profit organizations are playing an increasingly significant role, worldwide, in the provision and management of public services. Drawing together significant and ground breaking research, this series will be essential reading for students of public policy and management as well as the thinking manager. Topics covered include the management of innovation and change, financial management, performance evaluation and management and organizational development and project management.
The idea that international development aid needs to be better managed and coordinated gained currency in the early 1990s. The increasing emphasis on management has resulted in the present vogue of ‘managing for development results’ as one of the central tenets in the discourse on international aid…
Paperback – 2018-08-10
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Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
With increased competition for external funding, technological advancement, and public expectations for transparency, not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations are facing new challenges and pressures. While research has explored the roles of accounting, accountability, and performance…
Paperback – 2018-08-06
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Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
Innovations in management are becoming more numerous and diverse, and are appearing in organizations providing many different kinds of products and services. The purpose of this book is to examine whether some widely-promoted examples of these management innovations – ranging from techniques such…
Paperback – 2018-06-08
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Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
Recent decades have seen a significant transformation of the not-for-profit (NFP) sector. This includes rise in the number of organisations and people employed, shift from charities and philanthropic agencies to hybrid social enterprise business models, competing stakeholder interests and…
Hardback – 2018-04-06
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Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
Philanthropic foundations are experiencing a crisis of professional identity. They attract considerable hopes due to an unusually high degree of independence and freedom of manoeuvre, which theoretically places them in a privileged position to find novel solutions to societies’ most severe and…
Hardback – 2017-07-26
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Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
In this volume charity commissioners and leading charity policy reformers from across the world reflect on the aims and objectives of charity regulation and what it has achieved. Regulating Charities represents an insider’s review of the last quarter century of charity law policy and an insight for…
Hardback – 2017-04-17
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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…
Paperback – 2016-05-17
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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…
Paperback – 2016-01-21
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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…
Paperback – 2015-09-03
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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…
Paperback – 2014-08-15
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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…
Paperback – 2013-03-22
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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…
Paperback – 2012-07-11
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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…
Paperback – 2011-09-30
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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…
Hardback – 2011-03-28
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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…
Hardback – 2009-04-01
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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…
Paperback – 2006-09-11
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Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
Governing boards play a crucial role in ensuring that public and non-profit organizations are publicly accountable and perform well. Until now, there have been relatively few detailed empirical studies of what boards do in practice, but this book fills that gap by bringing together analyses based…
Paperback – 2005-04-14
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Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
What are the characteristics of social enterprises? What are the future prospects for social enterprises? What do social enterprises contribute? Analyzing social enterprises in fifteen different countries, The Emergence of Social Enterprise seeks to answer these important questions while…
Paperback – 2004-03-25
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Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
In the late 1990s, there was a distinct rise in interest in the non-profit sector, and in retailing and consumption. Drawing together these two concerns this book provides a comprehensive and international account of the retail charity sector. Charity shops are now significant…
Hardback – 2002-03-28
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Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
The voluntary nonprofit sector is now involved in all aspects of people's lives. The management of such organizations has never been of more interest than it is now, and the sector as a whole is in a period of great change. Well-meaning amateurs are being replaced by highly committed and…
Paperback – 2002-01-24
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Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
The voluntary sector contains over 50,000 organizations, 320,000 paid staff, and 3 million volunteers. The accounting and financial management of organizations in this sector poses as many difficulties as that of major for-profit organizations, if not more so, given the absence of the profit motive…
Paperback – 2001-09-27
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Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
The nonprofit sector occupies an ever more central role in economic and social policies, from the redesign of welfare system in the U.S. or UK, to fostering democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. At the same time, non-profit organizations face increased public scrutiny, and calls for more '…
Hardback – 2001-06-21
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Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
The innovative capacity of voluntary organizations has become a touchstone for their role in providing public services. Across the world there are increasing pressures on voluntary organizations to improve the quality and effectiveness of public services through innovation and change. This volume…
Hardback – 1998-07-09
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Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations