Being “Business-Like” in a Nonprofit Organization: A Grounded and Inductive Typology
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- 30 June 2004
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
- Vol. 33 (2), 290-310
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764004263522
Abstract
Little research has systematically examined the concept of being business-like in a non-profit organization setting despite the increased importance of this concept in research, policy, and practitioner communities. Based on an in-depth qualitative case study of a single, Canadian, nonprofit human services organization, this article proposes that being business-like in a nonprofit setting can be understood in at least four distinct categories: as goals of programs, as organization of either program service delivery or organizational management, and as organizational rhetoric.Keywords
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