Dictionary of Nonprofit Terms and Concepts

Informationen zum Autor David Horton Smith is founder of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) and its journal. Robert A. Stebbins, FRSC, is Faculty Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Calgary. Michael A. Dover is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Central Michigan University. Klappentext This dictionary supplies some of the necessary foundational work on the road toward a general theory of the nonprofit sector. Zusammenfassung Defines more than 1,200 terms and concepts that have been found useful in research and theory on the nonprofit sector. The entries reflect the importance of associations, citizen participation, philanthropy, voluntary action, nonprofit management, volunteer administration, leisure, and political activities of nonprofits. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Lexicographic Note Introduction: Defining Nonprofit/Voluntary Sector Terms and Concepts Dictionary of Terms and Concepts Bibliography

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Lexicographic Note
Introduction: Defining Nonprofit/Voluntary Sector Terms and Concepts
Dictionary of Terms and Concepts
Bibliography

About the author

David Horton Smith is founder of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) and its journal.
Robert A. Stebbins, FRSC, is Faculty Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Calgary.
Michael A. Dover is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Central Michigan University.

Product details

• Authors: Michael A Dover, Michael A. Dover, Dover Michael a, David Horton Smith, David Horton Stebbins Smith, Smith David Horton, Robert A Stebbins, Robert A. Stebbins, Stebbins Robert a
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2006
• EAN: 9780253347831
• ISBN: 978-0-253-34783-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Philanthropic and Nonprofit St; Indiana University Press; Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies; Philanthropic and Nonprofit St
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries