Overview

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.

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9780230234635

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'This crisp edited volume provides a useful addition to the growing, albeit still limited, literature on the critical analysis of hybrid forms of third sector organisations in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, and the challenges these organisations face in the delivery of welfare services as a result of their hybridity. This book also serves, according to the editor, to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of research and teaching on the voluntary/third sector at the Centre for Civil Soceity, London School of Economics.' - Dr. Celine Chew, Voluntary Sector Review

Author Information

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.

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