Nonprofit organizational behaviour : sociological and psychological approaches


Autoria(s): Leiter, Jeffrey; Newton, Cameron J.
Contribuinte(s)

Anheier, Helmut

Toepler, Stefan

Data(s)

2010

Resumo

The study of organizations goes to the roots of social science. Abundant theory provides the basis for explanations of diverse aspects of organizational structure and process. As a subset of organizations, nonprofit organizations can be studied with many of the same theoretical approaches used for studying other organizations. Still, nonprofit organizations have some special characteristics, such as a multiplicity of stakeholders and the use of volunteers; some theories of organizations can therefore be expected to be especially useful for studying nonprofit organizations and some other theories not to be very useful. In general, our approach is to apply relevant organizational theory to nonprofit organizations. As such, this essay is not a typical review of literature about nonprofit organizations. Instead, the purpose is to equip the reader with conceptual and theoretical tools for understanding nonprofits as organizations.

Formato

application/pdf

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/38158/

Publicador

Springer

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/38158/1/38158_newton_2010006135.pdf

DOI:10.1007/978-0-387-93996-4_75

Leiter, Jeffrey & Newton, Cameron J. (2010) Nonprofit organizational behaviour : sociological and psychological approaches. In Anheier, Helmut & Toepler, Stefan (Eds.) International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. Springer, London, pp. 1076-1088.

Direitos

Copyright 2010 Springer

Fonte

QUT Business School; School of Management

Palavras-Chave #150311 Organisational Behaviour #Nonprofit #Organizational Behaviour #Sociological Approaches #Psychological Approaches
Tipo

Book Chapter