Voluntary organizations and innovation in public services /
[Book]
Stephen P. Osborne.
New York :
Routledge,
1998.
1 online resource (xiii, 224 pages)
Routledge studies in the management of voluntary and non-profit organizations ;
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-222) and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Voluntary and non-profit organizations and innovation in public services; Conceptualizing voluntary activity; Innovations, innovators and innovating; Research methodology; Mapping and defining the innovative activity of VNPOs; Four causal hypotheses and a process; The innovative capacity of VNPOs; References; Index.
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"This volume uses original research to assess the innovative capacity of voluntary organizations. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the innovative capacity of voluntary organizations, empirical evidence detailing the nature and extent of innovation, an analysis of successful innovators and innovations in personal social services, the applicability of the for-profit model of innovation to non-profit organizations, and an account of the contingent nature of voluntary organizations' relationship to their external environment and particularly their main funders." "The development of a theory of innovation in non-market and non-profit conditions makes this volume an important addition to organizational studies literature."--Jacket.
Voluntary organizations and innovation in public services.
0415182565
Associations, institutions, etc-- Great Britain.
Human services-- Great Britain.
Nonprofit organizations-- Great Britain.
Organizational change-- Great Britain.
Social service-- Great Britain.
Associations, institutions, etc.
Freiwillige Vereinigung
Human services.
Informele zorg.
Innovation
Nonprofit organizations.
Nonprofit-Organisation
Organisatieverandering.
Organizational change.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services & Welfare.