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Voluntary organizations and innovation in public services / Stephen P. Osborne.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in the management of voluntary and non-profit organizations ; 1.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 224 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781134673162
  • 1134673167
  • 0203068017
  • 9780203068014
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Voluntary organizations and innovation in public services.DDC classification:
  • 361.8/0941 22
LOC classification:
  • HV245 .O73 1998eb
Other classification:
  • 79.10
Online resources:
Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Voluntary and non-profit organizations and innovation in public services; Conceptualizing voluntary activity; Innovations, innovators and innovating; Research methodology; Mapping and defining the innovative activity of VNPOs; Four causal hypotheses and a process; The innovative capacity of VNPOs; References; Index.
Review: "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 and innovations in personal social services, the applicability of the for-profit model of innovation to non-profit organizations, and 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 non-profit conditions makes this volume an important addition to organizational studies literature."--Jacket
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-222) and index.

"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 and innovations in personal social services, the applicability of the for-profit model of innovation to non-profit organizations, and 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 non-profit conditions makes this volume an important addition to organizational studies literature."--Jacket

Print version record.

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Voluntary and non-profit organizations and innovation in public services; Conceptualizing voluntary activity; Innovations, innovators and innovating; Research methodology; Mapping and defining the innovative activity of VNPOs; Four causal hypotheses and a process; The innovative capacity of VNPOs; References; Index.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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