The Third Sector

Comparative Studies of Nonprofit Organizations

Helmut K. Anheier, Wolfgang Seibel, Helmut K. Anheier, Wolfgang Seibel

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9783110117134
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110868401
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

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Table of contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I – The Third Sector Between the Market and the State
• 1.1 Sociological and Political Science Approaches to the Third Sector
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Institutional Characteristics and Classifications
• 3. Organizational Rationales
• 4. Sectoral Functions
• 5. Research Strategies
• 1.2 Economic Theories of the Nonprofit Sector: A Comparative Perspective
• 1.3 Modern Welfare State Policy Toward the Nonprofit Sector: Some Efficiency – Equity Dilemmas
• 1. Appropriate Roles for the Nonprofit Sector
• 2. Methods to Encourage Nonprofit Performance
• 3. Regulation of Nonprofit Relations with Government and Business Sectors and with Donors
• 4. Relations with Donors
• Part II – Organizational Theory and Behavior
• 2.1 Institutional Choice and Organizational Behavior in the Third Sector
• 2.2 Institutional Choice and the Nonprofit Sector
• 1. Issues of “Institutional Choice”
• 2. The Nonprofit Sector as a Result of “Institutional Choice” Considerations
• 3. Problems Common to Both Approaches
• 2.3 The Economic Role of Commercial Nonprofits: The Evolution of the Savings Bank Industry
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Origins of the Savings Bank Industry
• 3. The Development of Commercial Savings Banks
• 4. Mutual Savings and Loan Associations
• 5. Conclusion
• 2.4 Nonprofit Organizations and Consumer Policy: The Swedish Model
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theoretical Concerns and Systemic Considerations
• 3. The Origin and Development of Consumer Influence in Sweden
• 4. Summary and Conclusions
• 2.5 Para-Government Organizations in the Provision of Public Services: Three Explanations
• 1. Introduction
• 2. A “National Style” Approach to Explaining Agency Type
• 3. An Administrative Dilemmas Approach
• 4. A Subsidiarity/Transaction Problems Approach
• 5. Conclusion
• 2.6 Organizational Behavior and Organizational Function: Toward a Micro – Macro Theory of the Third Sector
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Organizational Behavior and Organizational Function
• 3. The Concept of Organizational Isomorphism and Some Vexing Problems in Explaining the Existence of a “Third Sector”
• 4. The Niche-Phenomenon in Modern Organizational Culture: X-Inefficiency and Population Ecology of Organizations as an Approach to the Third Sector
• 5. Organizational Behavior and Political Functionalism: The Third Sector as Response to Legitimacy-Dilemmas in Modern Democracy
• 6. Pattern of Micro-Behavior and Macro-Functions
• 7. Conclusion and Suggestions for Further Research
• 2.7 Competition, Resources, and Strategy in the British Nonprofit Sector
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Characteristics of the British Nonprofit Sector
• 3. Strategy in Voluntary Organizations
• 4. Data and Methods
• 5. Discussion: Resource Dependence and Strategy
• 6. Conclusion
• 2.8 Voluntary Organizations and Accountability: Theory and Practice
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Rise of Voluntary Sector Accountability: Pluralism, Professionalism, and Consumerism
• 3. Accountability and Voluntary Organizations
• 4. The Complexity of Voluntary Organization Accountability
• 5. The Reality of Voluntary Sector Accountability
• Part III – The Public and the Private: Efficiency, Funding, and
• Autonomy
• 3.1 Efficiency, Funding, and Autonomy in the Third Sector
• 3.2 Achievement in Public and Private Secondary Education in the Netherlands
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Data, Methods, and Variables
• 3. Achievement in Public and Private Grammar Schools
• 4. Achievement in Public and Private Junior General Schools
• 5. Conclusions
• 3.3 Public Money, Voluntary Action: Whose Welfare?
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Mixed Economy
• 3. Voluntary Sector Revenue and Public Sector Support
• 4. Rationales for Government Support
• 5. Whose Welfare?
• 3.4 The Nonprofit Sector and Government: The American Experience in Theory and Practice
• 1. Nine Observations
• 2. Conclusion
• 3.5 The Relationship Between Voluntary Associations and State Agencies in the Provision of Social Services at the Local Level
• 1. Community
• 2. The Aims of Voluntary Associations
• 3. The State Response
• 4. Modes of Relationship
• 5. The Relationship Studied
• 6. The Analysis of Power
• 7. Conclusion
• 3.6 Nonprofit Social Service Agencies and the Welfare State: Some Research Considerations
• 1. The Mixed Economy
• 2. The Significance of Auspices
• 3. Critique of Empowerment
• 4. The Nonprofit Sector as an Object of Research
• 5. Distinctive Character of Voluntary Nonprofit Organizations
• 6. Three Examples of Inter-Organizational Research
• 7. Conclusion
• Part IV – The Third Sector: International Perspectives
• 4.1 Nonprofit Organizations in International Perspective
• 1. Comparative Advantages of Nonprofit Organizations
• 2. Limits and Constraints
• 3. Concluding Remarks
• 4.2 The Nonprofit Sector in a Centrally Planned Economy
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Nonprofit Sector in State-Socialism?
• 3. State-Socialism Is not Welfare Socialism
• 4. The Revival of Hungary’s Private Voluntary Sector
• 5. Conclusion
• 6. Postscript
• 4.3 Public Authorities and the Nonprofit Sector in France
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Allocation Function
• 3. The Redistribution Function
• 4. The Regulation Function
• 4.4 The Nonprofit Sector in Switzerland: Taxonomy and Dimensions
• 1. The System of National Accounts (SNA)
• 2. The Third Sector and the Modern Welfare State
• 3. Size and Growth of the Third Sector Within Swiss Social Policy
• 4. The Third Sector: Supplement Rather Than Substitute
• 4.5 A Profile of the Third Sector in West Germany
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Relevant Characteristics of West German Society
• 3. A Profile of the Third Sector in West Germany
• 4. Concluding Remarks
• 4.6 The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in the Spanish Health Care Market
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Basic Features and Recent Trends in the Spanish Health Insurance Market
• 3. NPOs in the Health Care Insurance Market
• 4. The Future of the Private Insurance Sector
• 5. The Future Role of NPOs in the Spanish Health Care System
• 4.7 Traditional Neighborhood Associations in Industrial Society: The Case of Japan
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Neighborhood Associations and the Welfare System
• 3. The Ideological Legacy of Japanese Neighborhood Associations
• 4. jichikai (Neighborhood Associations)
• 5. Functions of jichikai
• 6. Financing of jichikai
• 7. The Cultural Background: Confucianism
• 8. The Relationship Between jichikai and Community
• 9. Conclusion
• 4.8 Private Voluntary Organizations and the Third World: The Case of Africa
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Comparative Advantages of PVOs
• 3. PVOs and the Organizational Field of Development
• 4. Financial Flows
• 5. Concluding Remarks
• Part V – Conclusion
• 5. The Third Sector in Comparative Perspective: Four Propositions
• 1. Four Propositions
• 2. Concluding Remarks
• Biographical Notes
• Name Index
• Subject Index