The Study of Nonprofit Enterprise: Theories and ApproachesHelmut K. Anheier, Avner Ben-Ner This volume addresses the need to revisit the economic theories from the last two decades that have contributed to the development of a concentrated research agenda on nonprofit organizations. Long neglected as a topic of theorizing and empirical investigation by mainstream economics in particular, these initial theories of nonprofit organizations from the late 1970s and early 1980s continue to shape theoretical and conceptual efforts. Importantly, their influence extends beyond economics and informs sociological and politics science approaches to the set of organizations and institutions located between the market firm and the state agency as well. While the theoretical map of nonprofit research has expanded beyond these early attempts and now include several other major theories such as stakeholder approaches, supply-side or entrepreneurial theories, institutional theories and comparative approaches. This work suggests that it is time to take stock and reexamine some of the basics from which these economic theories operate. |
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Contents
RELATIONAL GOODS | |
Chapter2 The Economics of the Third Sector | |
THIRD NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION INCENTIVE STRUCTURES | |
Public Good Theories of the Nonprofit Sector | |
Chapter4 The Public Goods Theory Revisited | |
COLLECTIVESERVICES AND THE ROLE OF NONPROFIT | |
MAYEXPLAIN THE PERSISTENCE OFNONPROFIT OWNERSHIP | |
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION | |
HAS THE TRUST HYPOTHESIS BEEN HYPOTHESIZED? | |
ORGANIZATIONS | |
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| Title | The Study of Nonprofit Enterprise: Theories and Approaches Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies |
| Editors | Helmut K. Anheier, Avner Ben-Ner |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media, 2012 |
| ISBN | 1461501318, 9781461501312 |
| Length | 331 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economics / General Business & Economics / General Business & Economics / Management Political Science / General Political Science / History & Theory Social Science / Sociology / General |
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