Community Organizations Studies in Resource Mobilization and Exchange

by Milofsky, Carl

• ISBN13: 9780195046809
• ISBN10: 0195046803
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1988-05-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Local nonprofit organizations are often small, loosely structured, and democratically governed, and therefore do not fit conveniently into traditional theories of organizational behavior that are rooted in administrative science and bureaucratic structure. Treating community organizations as parts of larger systems--organizational fields or ecologies and communities--this collection of papers presents various perspectives on local nonprofit organizations from the standpoint of organizational theory. The essays draw on an array of methods and theoretical approaches taken from population ecology theories of organizations, laying the foundation for the structural analysis of community organizations.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xv
Introduction: Networks, Markets, Culture, and Contracts: Understanding Community Organizations	p. 3
Scarcity and Community: A Resource Allocation Theory of Community and Mass Society Organizations	p. 16
A Theory of Voluntary Organization	p. 42
The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields	p. 77
Substance versus Symbol in Administrative Reform: The Case of Human Services Coordination	p. 100
The Corporation-Culture Connection: A Test of Interorganizational Theories	p. 119
United Charities: An Economic Analysis	p. 136
The United Way: Understanding How It Works Is the First Step to Effecting Change	p. 157
The Market for Loving-Kindness: Day-Care Centers and the Demand for Child Care	p. 170
Structure and Process in Community Self-Help Organizations	p. 183
The Structure of Funding Arenas for Neighborhood Based Organizations	p. 217
Local Communities and Organized Action	p. 243
The New World Survey of Community Self-Help Organizations	p. 277
Index	p. 285
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