Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
About the Book Series
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.
Managing Nongovernmental Organizations: Culture, Power and Resistance
1st Edition
By Frederik Claeyé
August 10, 2018
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...
Performance Management in Nonprofit Organizations: Global Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Zahirul Hoque, Lee Parker
August 06, 2018
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 ...
Management Innovations for Healthcare Organizations: Adopt, Abandon or Adapt?
1st Edition
Edited
By Anders Ortenblad, Carina Abrahamson Löfström, Rod Sheaff
June 08, 2018
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 ...
Employment Relations in the Voluntary Sector: Struggling to Care
1st Edition
By Ian Cunningham
May 13, 2016
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 ...
A Democratic Architecture for the Welfare State
1st Edition
By Victor A. Pestoff
January 20, 2016
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 ...
Human Resource Management in Nonprofit Organizations
1st Edition
By Alina McCandless Baluch
September 03, 2015
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 ...
Strategic Positioning in Voluntary and Charitable Organizations
1st Edition
By Celine Chew
April 23, 2015
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 ...
Charity Shops: Retailing, Consumption and Society
1st Edition
By Suzanne Horne, Avril Maddrell
December 22, 2014
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 ...
Managerial Economics of Non-Profit Organizations
1st Edition
By Marc Jegers
August 12, 2014
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 ...
Accountability and Effectiveness Evaluation in Nonprofit Organizations
1st Edition
By James Cutt, Vic Murray
May 22, 2013
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 ...
The Third Sector in Europe: Prospects and challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Osborne
August 09, 2012
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 ...
Governance and Regulation in the Third Sector: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Phillips, Steven Rathgeb Smith
July 11, 2012
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...