Stability and Change in Nonprofit Organizations: The Volunteer Contribution

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作者：
Catherine McDonald
Jeni Warburton
机构：
[1] The University of Queensland,School of Social Work and Applied Human Sciences
来源：
Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations | 2003年 / 14卷 / 4期
关键词：
volunteers; nonprofit sector; change; neoinstitutional theory;
D O I：
10.1023/B:VOLU.0000007465.11630.fa
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摘要：
This paper reports on a study of the microprocesses of stability and change in a nonprofit welfare organization in Australia. We position volunteering and voluntarism as core constitutive phenomena in and of nonprofit organizations and the nonprofit sector more generally, and examine volunteer agency in action. Developing a model drawn from neoinstitutional theory and adopting an ethnographic approach, the paper illustrates theoretically and empirically how volunteers create and revise institutional orders operative within organizations in ways hitherto poorly articulated and understood.
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页数：18
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