Contributors; Introduction: Networks, Markets, Culture, and Contracts: Understanding Community Organizations; 1. Scarcity and Community: A Resource Allocation Theory of Community and Mass Society Organizations; 2. A Theory of Voluntary Organization; 3. The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields; 4. Substance versus Symbol in Administrative Reform: The Case of Human Services Coordination; 5. The Corporation-Culture Connection: A Test of Interorganizational Theories; 6. United Charities: An Economic Analysis
Summary
This book examines the roles, functions, and governance of non-profit organizations that work on behalf of the welfare of citizens of specific communities
