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Voluntary Organizations and Innovation in the Public Services

Stephen Osborne, Aston University, UK

Assesses the innovative capacity of voluntary organizations, providing:

• a conceptual framework
• empirical evidence detailing the nature and extent of innovation
• analysis of successful innovators in personal social services
• the applicability of the for-profit model of innovation to nonprofit organizations
• an account of the contingent nature of the relationship between voluntary organizations and their external environment, particularly funders.

Develops a theory of innovation in non-market and nonprofit conditions.

July 1998: 234x156: 240pp
Hb: 0-415-18256-5