Voluntary Organizations and Innovation in Public Services

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-18256-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 529 g

Reihe: 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 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 in personal social services
* the applicability of the for-profit model of innovation to non-profit organizations
* 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 nonprofit conditions makes this volume an important addition to organizational studies literature.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Osborne, Stephen P.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Non-Profit-Organisationen, Verbände
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Public Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Öffentlicher Dienst, Öffentlicher Sektor
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Forschung & Entwicklung (F&E), Innovation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Voluntary and non-profit organizations and innovation in public services; Chapter 2 Conceptualizing voluntary activity; Chapter 3 Innovations, innovators and innovating; Chapter 4 Research methodology; Chapter 5 Mapping and defining the innovative activity of VNPOs; Chapter 6 Four causal hypotheses and a process; Chapter 7 The innovative capacity of VNPOs;

Über Autor(innen)

Osborne, Stephen P.