Understanding nonprofit organizations
成果类型：
Book Review
署名作者：
Fredericksen, PJ
署名单位：
Boise State University
刊物名称：
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
ISSN/ISSBN：
0033-3352
发表日期：
2003
页码：
112-115
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摘要：
The prominent role that the non-profit sector plays in the delivery of public goods and services has received increased attention from academics and practitioners. Three new additions to the growing literature in this area warrant the scrutiny of public administrators, scholars, and students. In 1980, Frederick Mosher called for attention to the fundamental shifts in the purposes, emphases, and methods of federal operations (Mosher 1980, 541). He noted that changes in the content of what the government undertakes to have done and in the means by which it undertakes to have it done have enormous consequences for the content and the means of public administration, the principal and indispensable arm of implementation (Mosher 1980, 545, emphasis in original). The nonprofit sector must heed this warning as the increasing political and economic popularity of implementation through nonprofits and the emergent expectations placed upon these organizations raise fundamental issues for nonprofit management-the capacity of organizations to deliver and the accountability of those organizations to the various constituencies that they serve. Three books contribute in different ways to providing some understanding of the practical considerations facing nonprofit managers, who must act to develop organizational capacity while they respond to a turbulent political, social, and economic environment.