Nonprofit Organizations in an Age of Uncertainty

by Bielefeld,Wolfgang

• ISBN13: 9780202305660
• ISBN10: 020230566X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-12-01
• Publisher: Aldine De Gruyter

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xiii
Organizational Change and the Public Charity	1	(40)
Learning from the Literature on Organizational Change	2	(23)
Public Charities	25	(10)
Discussion	35	(1)
Acknowledgments	36	(5)
A Profile of the Twin Cities Public Charity Sector: 1980--1994	41	(42)
Mark Hager
Cheryl Jorgensen
The Twin Cities of Minneapolis--St. Paul	41	(10)
Data and Methodology: Cross-Sectional Surveys and the Panel Study	51	(7)
Public Charity Activities	58	(2)
Public Charity Employees and Volunteers	60	(1)
Public Charity Expenditures and Revenues	61	(12)
Discussion	73	(2)
Acknowledgments	75	(8)
Growth and Decline among Nonprofit Organizations	83	(42)
Mark Hager
Yoshito Ishio
Joel Pins
Organizational Growth and Decline	84	(10)
Data, Methods, and Variables	94	(11)
Models of Growth and Decline	105	(2)
Testing for Niche and Tactics Effects: Hypotheses 1 through 8	107	(6)
Testing for Embeddedness Effects: Hypotheses 9--13	113	(2)
Discussion	115	(10)
Environmental and Embeddedness Effects on Organizational Tactics	125	(38)
Organizational Tactics and Activities	126	(7)
Data, Methods, and Variables	133	(5)
Testing for Resource Dependency and Niche Effects: Hypotheses 1--7	138	(12)
Testing for Embeddedness Effects: Hypotheses 8--11	150	(5)
Discussion	155	(8)
Growth, Decline, Tactics and the Organizational Milieux	163	(44)
Sarah Allen Welter
The Consequences of Change	164	(10)
Data, Methods, Variables	174	(6)
Analyzing the Consequences of Change	180	(17)
Discussion	197	(8)
Acknowledgments	205	(2)
Summary and Conclusions	207	(34)
Explaining Organizational Change: A Contest of Ideas	208	(27)
Conclusion	235	(6)
Appendix A Original Sample, 1980	241	(10)
Appendix B Niche Analysis	251	(18)
References	269	(17)
Index	286