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The Shadow State: Government and Voluntary Sector in Transition
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The article was published on 1990-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 385 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Voluntary sector & Shadow (psychology).read more
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Cross-Sector Partnerships to Address Social Issues: Challenges to Theory and Practice:
John W. Selsky,Barbara Parker +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consolidate recent literature on CSSPs to improve the potential for cross-disciplinary fertilization and especially to highlight developments in various disciplines for organizational researchers and highlight possible directions for future research on the theory, process, practice, method, and critique of CSSP.
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In search of the non-profit sector. I: The question of definitions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the lack of attention to the third sector historically is primarily a result of the weakness and limitations of the concepts that are used to define and describe it.
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Accountability Myopia: Losing Sight of Organizational Learning:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine two forms of myopia in accountability in organizations and challenge the normative assumption that more accountability is necessarily better, by examining two common misperceptions about accountability.
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The Mythology of Privatization in Contracting for Social Services
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine two questions about the privatization of social services based on interviews conducted with public and nonprofit managers in New York state: Does social services contracting exist in a competitive environment? And do county governments have enough public-management capacity to contract effectively for social services?
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Making sense of accountability: Conceptual perspectives for northern and southern nonprofits
TL;DR: In this article, an integrated framework is developed, based on four central observations: accountability is relational in nature and is constructed through inter- and intraorganizational relationships, accountability is complicated by the dual role of nonprofits as both principals and agents in their relationships with other actors, accountability operates through external as well as internal processes, such that an emphasis on external oversight and control misses other dimensions of accountability essential to nonprofit organizations.