SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Business Administration
No 1999:7:
The Organization of Non-Profit Activities
Sven-Erik Sjöstrand ()
Abstract: This paper is concerned with the different forms of
organizations which emerge in a capitalist market society. A theory is
presented which primarily aims to describe and explain the repertoire of
organizational forms which occur in such economies. In this paper, there is
an emphasis on the theoretical forms which are particularly important for
the analysis and understanding of the ideell sector, a Swedish term roughly
corresponding to the 'non-profit sector' (the preferred terminology in the
United States), and as the 'voluntary' sector (a preferred name in United
Kingdom).
This analysis is addressed to scholars who are interested in
the theoretical aspects of organizing, and consequently have certain
insights into institutional economics, socio-economics, and organization
theory. Particularly, it is aimed at actors engaged in exploring the ideell
sector.
There is very little information about how these ideell
(non-profit; voluntary) organizations "work", that is to say how they are
managed, organized and how they reproduce themselves. This article
represents an attempt to correct this deficiency to some extent, in the
form of a theoretical framework developed in this area by the author over
the past decade (Sjöstrand, e.g. 1985, 1992, 1993c, and 1997). This theory
primarily aims to describe and explain the repertoire of organizations,
which emerge in a society and it permits comparative analyses of the
characteristics of these various organizational forms. At the same time,
this theory is intended to provide a basis for describing the action
rationalities of different organizations.
Keywords: Non-profit sector; organization; organizational form; multirationality; interaction rationale; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: P10; (follow links to similar papers)
32 pages, September 1999
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