Smallville : Institutionalizing Community in Twenty-First-Century America

by Milofsky, Carl

• ISBN13: 9781584657217
• ISBN10: 1584657219
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-28
• Publisher: Univ Pr of New England

Summary

Familiar organizational theories often do not fit comfortably when applied to community-level associations or small, local, nonprofit organizations. In Smallville, Carl Milofsky empirically and theoretically studies the organizational dynamics involved in this common American model. Organizations functioning within a community are usually treated as separate units, but when they all exist in the same place and tend to be made up of the same people who are living out different aspects of their identities in various settings, a new analytical paradigm is required. Milofsky's study culminates in the formulation of an innovative way of understanding this phenomenon--an essential, pioneering theory of "transorganizations."

Author Biography

CARL MILOFSKY is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Bucknell University. He is a former editor of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Table of Contents

Where Nonprofits Come From	p. 1
The Wild River Institute and Smallville's Social Treasury	p. 33
Organizational Phoenix: Fighting the Incinerator	p. 50
The Love Life of an Alternative School	p. 68
Influx: Institutionalizing a Social Problem	p. 90
How Doctors Act: The Medical Community as a Network Organization	p. 108
Cooptation of Activist Movements: The Women's Shelter and the AIDS Organization	p. 123
Filling a Structural Hole: A Religious Program for Delinquents Helps the Schools and the Courts	p. 141
The Episcopal Diocese as a Mediating Structure	p. 161
Transorganizations: New Organizational Perspectives for Understanding Community-Level Nonprofits	p. 183
Notes	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 249
Index	p. 265
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