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- Reimagining Nonprofits
- Reimagining Nonprofits
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 An Invitation to Rethink the Nonprofit Sector
- Part I Overviews
- Part II Reflections and Refinements
- Part III New Directions
- 12 Nonprofits as Organizational Actors
- 13 Nonprofits as Enablers of Multilayered Representation
- 14 Nonprofits as Facilitators of National Self-development
- 15 Nonprofits as Part of an Engineered Social Economy
- 16 Nonprofits as Shaped by the Ruling Party
- 17 Nonprofits as Sources of Authoritarian Regime Stability
- 18 Nonprofits as Creators of Transformative Symbolic Reality
- 19 Nonprofits as Distributors of Toll Goods
- 20 Nonprofits as Agents of Moral Authority
- Part IV Conclusion
- Index
- References
19 - Nonprofits as Distributors of Toll Goods
from Part III - New Directions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
- Reimagining Nonprofits
- Reimagining Nonprofits
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 An Invitation to Rethink the Nonprofit Sector
- Part I Overviews
- Part II Reflections and Refinements
- Part III New Directions
- 12 Nonprofits as Organizational Actors
- 13 Nonprofits as Enablers of Multilayered Representation
- 14 Nonprofits as Facilitators of National Self-development
- 15 Nonprofits as Part of an Engineered Social Economy
- 16 Nonprofits as Shaped by the Ruling Party
- 17 Nonprofits as Sources of Authoritarian Regime Stability
- 18 Nonprofits as Creators of Transformative Symbolic Reality
- 19 Nonprofits as Distributors of Toll Goods
- 20 Nonprofits as Agents of Moral Authority
- Part IV Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
Witesman provides an institutional theory of the nonprofit. The chapter considers the argument developed by the author in a 2016 Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly article. In it, she proposes an institutional theory of the nonprofit that defines its distinction from public and private institutions through (1) the voluntary (rather than coercive) assignment of roles and (2) the use of the good or service by non-payers. The voluntary and redistributive nature of such nonprofit-type institutions makes them primarily compatible with the distribution of goods that are non-subtractable and excludable (toll goods). This view is in contrast to legalistic or sector-based theories of the nonprofit.
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- Reimagining NonprofitsSector Theory in the Twenty-First Century, pp. 372 - 393Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024