Community Organizations : Studies in Resource Mobilization and Exchange.

Intro -- Contents -- 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 -- 7. The United Way: Understanding How It Works Is the First Step to Effecting Change -- 8. The Market for Loving-Kindness: Day-Care Centers and the Demand for Child Care -- 9. Structure and Process in Community Self-Help Organizations -- 10. The Structure of Funding Arenas for Neighborhood Based Organizations -- 11. Local Communities and Organized Action -- Appendix: The New World Survey of Community Self-Help Organizations -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

This collection presents various perspectives on local nonprofit organizations from the standpoint of organizational theory. The contributors draw on an array of methods and theoretical approaches taken from population ecology theories to lay the foundation for the structural analysis of community organization.

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