Community organizations : studies in resource mobilization and exchange / edited by Carl Milofsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Milofsky, Carl.

Series:

Yale studies on nonprofit organizations

Yale studies on nonprofit organizations.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voluntarism--United States.

Voluntarism.

United States.

Community organization--United States.

Community organization.

Nonprofit organizations--United States.

Nonprofit organizations.

Physical Description:

xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Networks, Markets, Culture, and Contracts: Understanding Community Organizations / Carl Milofsky 3

1. Scarcity and Community: A Resource Allocation Theory of Community and Mass Society Organizations / Carl Milofsky 16

2. A Theory of Voluntary Organization / J. Miller McPherson 42

3. The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields / Paul DiMaggio, Walter W. Powell 77

4. Substance versus Symbol in Administrative Reform: The Case of Human Services Coordination / Janet A. Weiss 100

5. The Corporation-Culture Connection: A Test of Interorganizational Theories / Joseph Galaskiewicz, Barbara Rauschenbach 119

6. United Charities: An Economic Analysis / Susan Rose-Ackerman 136

7. The United Way: Understanding How It Works Is the First Step to Effecting Change / Deborah Kaplan Polivy 157

8. The Market for Loving-Kindness: Day-Care Centers and the Demand for Child Care / Susan Rose-Ackerman 170

9. Structure and Process in Community Self-Help Organizations / Carl Milofsky 183

10. The Structure of Funding Arenas for Neighborhood Based Organizations / Carl Milofsky, Frank P. Romo 217

11. Local Communities and Organized Action / Albert Hunter, Suzanne Staggenborg 243

Appendix The New World Survey of Community Self-Help Organizations / Carl Milofsky 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

0195046803

OCLC:

16131147