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The nonprofit sector has changed in fundamental ways in recent
decades. As the sector has grown in scope and size, both
domestically and internationally, the boundaries between
for-profit, governmental, and charitable organizations have become
intertwined. Nonprofits are increasingly challenged on their roles
in mitigating or exacerbating inequality. And debates flare over
the role of voluntary organizations in democratic and autocratic
societies alike. The Nonprofit Sector takes up these concerns and
offers a cutting-edge empirical and theoretical assessment of the
state of the field. This book, now in its third edition, brings
together leading researchers—economists, historians,
philosophers, political scientists, and sociologists along with
scholars from communication, education, law, management, and policy
schools—to investigate the impact of associational life. Chapters
consider the history of the nonprofit sector and of philanthropy;
the politics of the public sphere; governance, mission, and
engagement; access and inclusion; and global perspectives on
nonprofit organizations. Across this comprehensive range of topics,
The Nonprofit Sector makes an essential contribution to the study
of civil society.
Hyper-Organization offers an institutional explanation for the
expansion of formal organization in the contemporary era-in
numbers, internal complexity, social domains, and national
contexts. Much expansion is hard to justify in terms of technical
production or political power, it lies in areas such as protecting
the environment, promoting marginalized groups, or behaving with
transparency. The authors argue that expansion is supported by
widespread cultural rationalization characterized by scientism,
rights and empowerment discourses, and an explosion of education.
These cultural changes are transmitted through legal, accounting,
and professionalization principles, driving the creation of new
organizations and the elaboration of existing ones. The resulting
organizations are constructed to be proper social actors, as much
as functionally effective entities. They are painted as autonomous
and integrated but depend heavily on external definitions to
sustain this depiction. So expansion creates organizations that
are, whatever their actual effectiveness, structurally arational.
This book advances theories of social organization in three main
ways. First, by giving an account of the expansive rise of
'organization' rooted in rapid worldwide cultural rationalization.
Second, explaining the construction of contemporary organizations
as purposive actors, rather than passive bureaucracies or loose
associations. Third, showing how the expanded actorhood of the
contemporary organization, and the associated interpenetration with
the environment, dialectically generate structures far removed from
instrumental rationality.
Hyper-Organization offers an institutional explanation for the
expansion of formal organization in the contemporary era-in
numbers, internal complexity, social domains, and national
contexts. Much expansion is hard to justify in terms of technical
production or political power, it lies in areas such as protecting
the environment, promoting marginalized groups, or behaving with
transparency. The authors argue that expansion is supported by
widespread cultural rationalization characterized by scientism,
rights and empowerment discourses, and an explosion of education.
These cultural changes are transmitted through legal, accounting,
and professionalization principles, driving the creation of new
organizations and the elaboration of existing ones. The resulting
organizations are constructed to be proper social actors, as much
as functionally effective entities. They are painted as autonomous
and integrated but depend heavily on external definitions to
sustain this depiction. So expansion creates organizations that
are, whatever their actual effectiveness, structurally arational.
This book advances theories of social organization in three main
ways. First, by giving an account of the expansive rise of
'organization' rooted in rapid worldwide cultural rationalization.
Second, explaining the construction of contemporary organizations
as purposive actors, rather than passive bureaucracies or loose
associations. Third, showing how the expanded actorhood of the
contemporary organization, and the associated interpenetration with
the environment, dialectically generate structures far removed from
instrumental rationality.
Susan Aitken returns home looking forward to the Easter weekend to
find her husband, Sir Gerald Aitken, with a bullet in his head.
What appears to be a suicide is much more sinister. Four teenage
friends, all now mature women, become reunited at his funeral.
Thirty years have passed and none of them realise that their lives
have been intertwined. The months following the funeral open up a
catalogue of lies and as Susan struggles to cope with the
consequences, police investigate further and find links to
blackmail, homosexuality and child abuse amongst all of them. The
family and trusted friends are in total disbelief, but one of them
is Gerald's killer. How do these happenings, spanning over four
decades, lead to a massive police cover-up and who is behind it
all?
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