Voluntary Organizations and Innovation in Public Services
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Voluntary Organizations and Innovation in Public Services

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Voluntary Organizations and Innovation in Public Services

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Voluntary Organizations and Innovation in Public Services by Stephen P. Osborne in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Negocios y empresa & Negocios en general. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781134673155

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Voluntary Organizations and Innovation in Public Services
  3. Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
  4. Full Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of illustrations
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. List of abbreviations
  11. 1 Voluntary and non-profit organizations and innovation in public services
  12. 2 Conceptualizing voluntary activity
  13. 3 Innovations, innovators and innovating
  14. 4 Research methodology
  15. 5 Mapping and defining the innovative activity of VNPOs
  16. 6 Four causal hypotheses and a process
  17. 7 The innovative capacity of VNPOs
  18. References
  19. Index