Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations

This volume uses original research to assess the innovative capacity of voluntary organizations and develops a theory of innovation in non-market and nonprofit conditions.

The key aim of this book is to help existing and future NFP leaders at all organisational levels to support their organisations and employees and in turn clients and communities, through theoretical insights and practical approaches by focusing on transformational leadership aspects for contemporary Not for Profits.

In order to effectively and consistently provide services to citizens, local governments have had to come up with creative ways for offering services demanded by their citizens. One popular approach became the creation of volunteer programs as local governments became increasingly reliant on volunteers. Volunteers are one means by which local governments help to increase meaningful engagement with citizens and help meet the increasing needs for public services with limited resources. On a broader scale, volunteers in public agencies provide a variety of services to fill gaps in creating and sustaining collective societal goods that otherwise might have been limited due to fiscal stress on local governments or eliminated.Public Sector Volunteer Management: Best Practices and Challenges adds to the understanding of how management practices may affect retention of volunteers. It provides an opportunity to add much-needed data to any discussion concerning volunteering at the local government level from the perspective of volunteer coordinators and aims to provide in-depth research on local government volunteer management practices.This book focuses on best practices identified as necessary for successful volunteer management in the public sector, specifically in a local government setting, making it a valuable text for researchers, academics, and students in the fields of public and nonprofit management, leadership, and human resource management.

This research-based book examines the design, implementation, and working of accounting, accountability, governance, and performance management measures of nonprofit organizations. It presents critical commentaries, contemporary and retrospective views, and useful insights from leading scholars in the field.

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 as Kaizen to styles of leadership and the management of learning - can usefully be applied to organizations which provide healthcare, and applied in different kinds of health systems. Management Innovations for Healthcare Organizations is distinctive in selecting a wide and diverse range and selection of managerial innovations to examine. No less distinctively, it makes an adaptive, critical scrutiny of these innovations. Neither evangelist nor nihilist, the book instead considers how these innovations might be adapted for the specific task of providing healthcare. Where evidence on these points is available, the book outlines that too. Consequently the book takes an international approach, with contributions from Europe, the Middle East, Australia and North America. Each contributor is an expert in the management innovation which they present. This combination of features makes the book unique.

This research-based book examines the design, implementation, and working of accounting, accountability, governance, and performance management measures of nonprofit organizations. It presents critical commentaries, contemporary and retrospective views, and useful insights from leading scholars in the field.

Focusing on NGO management, this work includes 12 case studies of NGO management issues and challenges; definitions of key terms; and more. Revealing the organizational challenges faced by NGOs, it is useful to those studying or working in NGOs, the voluntary sector, or development studies.

Drawing on material from a variety of disciplines, including marketing, retailing, cultural studies and social geography, this volume provides an overview of the history and development of the charity shop.

Presents a systematic examination of how voluntary sector employment is being affected by the growing trend to the market-based outsourcing of the delivery of public services.

This volume provides new perspectives on assessing the performance of nonprofit organizations whilst meeting the information needs of decision-makers, both internal and external.

This book explores key policy issues for the nonprofit sector against a background of increasing competition, new public management and ever decreasing budgets.

Presents microeconomic insights on the functioning of non-profit organizations. This title focuses on theoretical and empirical work.

This book brings together analyses of public and non-profit organizations based upon some of the best recent empirical studies, and uses a new theoretical framework to highlight the paradoxical nature of governance.

This book traces the most significant developments in social entrepreneurship emerging in Europe. The work also examines the more traditional non-profit or third sector organizations. The final chapters outline a theory of social enterprise.

The welfare state faces various challenges in Scandinavia and many European countries. This book argues that the state cannot resolve these challenges alone or together with the market, rather it requires the active participation of citizens and the third sector in order to overcome them and become more sustainable and flexible in the future.

Rekindling the critical analysis of the adoption of generic commercial (for-profit) management approaches in the non-profit context, this book reveals that charities are positioning themselves in their evolving external environment in distinctive ways that are not adequately explained by positioning theories.

Presents contemporary research into the voluntary sector in Europe. This book explores its contribution to European society as well as the key challenges it faces, drawing from both economics and sociology.

Offers an exploration of the relationship between the voluntary sector and state agencies, and the impact of this on employment in the sector, giving an insight into what it is like to work in a voluntary organization in the UK.

Develops a theory of social enterprise through a comparative analysis of 160 social enterprises across 11 EU countries. With contributions from a list of academics, all members of the EMES European Research Network, this book is useful for academics, researchers and students in the fields of the third sector and social policies.

This UK/European text provides a much-needed summation of strategic management issues in nonprofit organizations, addressing both academic theory and current practice.

While there are many similarities to the management of the private sector, in particular, financial management of small businesses, this book identifies and explains the specialist aspects of charity finance.

This book investigates the remarkable growth of the 'third sector', focusing on social enterprises, their characteristics, their contribution and their future prospects.

This book brings together analyses of public and non-profit organizations based upon some of the best recent empirical studies, and uses a new theoretical framework to highlight the paradoxical nature of governance.

This book 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.

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.