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.
Social Enterprise: At the Crossroads of Market, Public Policies and Civil Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Marthe Nyssens
October 24, 2006
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...
The Governance of Public and Non-Profit Organizations
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Cornforth
July 12, 2005
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 ...
The Management of Non-Governmental Development Organizations: An Introduction
1st Edition
By David Lewis
August 02, 2004
Exploring the newly emerging field of the management of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working in developing countries, this informative book draws upon current research in non-profit management, development administration and business management. Key issues covered include: * the ...
The Emergence of Social Enterprise
1st Edition
Edited
By Carlo Borzaga, Jacques Defourny
May 07, 2004
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 ...
Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations
1st Edition
By Roger Courtney
March 15, 2002
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 ...
Financial Management in the Voluntary Sector: New Challenges
1st Edition
By Paul Palmer, Adrian Randall
January 11, 2002
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...
Third Sector Policy at the Crossroads: An International Non-profit Analysis
1st Edition
By Helmut K. Anheier, Jeremy Kendall
July 25, 2001
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 '...
Voluntary Organizations and Innovation in Public Services
1st Edition
By Stephen P. Osborne
August 13, 1998
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 ...