Voluntary organizations and innovation in public services / / Stephen P. Osborne |
Autore | Osborne Stephen P. <1953, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (238 p.) |
Disciplina | 361.8/0941 |
Collana | Routledge studies in the management of voluntary and non-profit organizations |
Soggetto topico |
Human services - Great Britain
Social service - Great Britain Associations, institutions, etc - Great Britain Nonprofit organizations - Great Britain Organizational change - Great Britain |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-33849-0
0-203-26482-7 9786610338498 1-134-67316-7 0-203-06801-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Voluntary and non-profit organizations and innovation in public services; 2 Conceptualizing voluntary activity; Developing a typology of voluntary activity; Defining organized voluntary activity; 3 Innovations, innovators and innovating; The nature of innovation; Some wider issues in organization theory; VNPOs and innovation in the personal social services; Combining the literatures-the present state of knowledge and research questions for this study; 4 Research methodology
Developing the research methodology used in this studyReliability and validity in this study; Initiating the research process; 5 Mapping and defining the innovative activity of VNPOs; Mapping the innovative activity of VNPOs; The attributes of innovative VNPOs; Conclusions; 6 Four causal hypotheses and a process; The organizational hypothesis; The cultural hypothesis; The environmental hypothesis; The institutional hypothesis; The process of innovation; 7 The innovative capacity of VNPOs; Toward a model of the innovative capacity of VNPOs; The hard cases; Implications for theory and research Lessons for the management of the innovative capacity of VNPOsReferences; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910449700103321 |
Osborne Stephen P. <1953, > | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Voluntary organizations and innovation in public services / / Stephen P. Osborne |
Autore | Osborne Stephen P. <1953, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (238 p.) |
Disciplina | 361.8/0941 |
Collana | Routledge studies in the management of voluntary and non-profit organizations |
Soggetto topico |
Human services - Great Britain
Social service - Great Britain Associations, institutions, etc - Great Britain Nonprofit organizations - Great Britain Organizational change - Great Britain |
ISBN |
1-134-67315-9
1-280-33849-0 0-203-26482-7 9786610338498 1-134-67316-7 0-203-06801-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Voluntary and non-profit organizations and innovation in public services; 2 Conceptualizing voluntary activity; Developing a typology of voluntary activity; Defining organized voluntary activity; 3 Innovations, innovators and innovating; The nature of innovation; Some wider issues in organization theory; VNPOs and innovation in the personal social services; Combining the literatures-the present state of knowledge and research questions for this study; 4 Research methodology
Developing the research methodology used in this studyReliability and validity in this study; Initiating the research process; 5 Mapping and defining the innovative activity of VNPOs; Mapping the innovative activity of VNPOs; The attributes of innovative VNPOs; Conclusions; 6 Four causal hypotheses and a process; The organizational hypothesis; The cultural hypothesis; The environmental hypothesis; The institutional hypothesis; The process of innovation; 7 The innovative capacity of VNPOs; Toward a model of the innovative capacity of VNPOs; The hard cases; Implications for theory and research Lessons for the management of the innovative capacity of VNPOsReferences; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782908103321 |
Osborne Stephen P. <1953, > | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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