The Study of Nonprofit Enterprise Theories and Approaches [Paperback]

I. Introduction.- 1 The Theory of Nonprofit Organizations Revisited.- 2 The Economics of the Third Sector: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach.- II. The Major Theories.- Public Good Theories.- 3 Public Good Theories of the Nonprofit Sector: Weisbrod Revisited.- 4 The Public Goods Theory Revisited: Comments on Kingmas Revisitation of Weisbrod.- Trust-Related Theories.- 5 Trust, Repute, and the Role of Nonprofit Enterprise.- 6 The Role of Trust in Nonprofit Enterprise.- Stakeholder Theories.- 7 Stakeholder Theories of the Nonprofit Sector: One Cut at the Economic Literature.- Entrepreneurship Theories.- 8 Entrepreneurship in Nonprofit Organizations: Its Role in Theory and in the Real World Nonprofit Sector.- 9 Entrepreneurs, Managers, and the Nonprofit Enterprise.- Voluntary Failure and Institutional Theories.- 10 Voluntary Failure Theory and Nonprofit-Government Partnership.- 11 Voluntary Failure Theory Correctly Viewed.- 12 State, Subject, Space: Silences in Institutionalist Theories of Nonprofit-Government Relations.- Organizational Theory and Behavior.- 13 The Behavior of Organizations.- 14 Are Nonprofit Organizations Different?.- III. Comparisons and Implications.- 15 Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector: A Comparative Perspectives of Structure and Change.- 16 Economic Theories of Nonprofit Organizations: An Evaluation.- 17 An Ecological Perspective on NonProfit Research.Springer Book Archives