Gebundenes Buch

Hybrid Organizations and the Third Sector

Challenges for Practice, Theory and Policy

Herausgeber: Billis, David

Beschreibung

Addressing a key social policy problem, this book analyses modern voluntary organisations through the lens of a new theory of hybrid organisations, which is tested and developed in the context of a range of case studies. Essential reading for all interested in the future of the third sector.

Autor

DAVID BILLIS is Reader Emeritus at the London School of Economics. In 1978 he founded PORTVAC, the first university-based programme working with voluntarily organizations. In 1987 he became Director of the LSE Centre for Voluntary Organisation which extended the work of PORTVAC. The Centre was later renamed the Centre for Civil Society. He co-founded the journal Nonprofit Management and Leadership. He is the only non-American to receive the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from ARNOVA the leading international third sector research association. Recent posts include Visiting Professor at Imperial College. He has extensive research and consultancy experience in the public, private and third sector and has published widely in these areas. His books include Organisational Design, Welfare Bureaucracies, and Organising Public and Voluntary Agencies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL / Macmillan Education / Red Globe Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 501g
• ISBN-13: 9780230234635
• ISBN-10: 0230234631
• Artikelnr.: 29932184