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

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Osborne, Stephen P, 1953-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: 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

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computer

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online resource

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9781134673162
1134673167
0203068017
9780203068014
1280338490
9781280338496
0203264827
9780203264829
9786610338498
6610338493
1134673159
9781134673155

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Voluntary organizations and innovation in public services.DDC classification:

361.8/0941 22

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HV245 .O73 1998eb

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79.10

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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