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Community Organizations: Studies in Resource Mobilization and Exchange
Author(s): Carl Milofsky
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: May 26, 1988
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195046803
- ISBN-13: 9780195046809
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Constitutes a valuable resource for anyone probing the organizational dimension of urban culture.”–Contemporary Sociology
“The theoretical diversity of the essays makes this collection a valuable contribution to the debate among social scientists pretaining to community organizations.”–Choice
About the Author
Carl Milofsky is at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania.
