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- ISBN 9781041308638
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book offers a critical examination of contemporary nonprofit organisations, challenging prevailing assumptions about their inherently positive social role. It explores the evolving functions, contradictions and emerging “anti-functions” of the third sector within broader socio-economic transformations.
Drawing on perspectives from critical management studies, it analyses how processes such as neoliberalisation, neocolonial dynamics, projectification and the growing business-like orientation reshape nonprofit practices, governance and organisational identities. Particular attention is given to the often overlooked “hidden side” of nonprofit activity, including managerial tensions, pathologies and unintended consequences that affect organisational effectiveness and social impact.
Bridging theoretical reflection with critical insight, the book provides a nuanced understanding of the sector’s internal dynamics and external pressures. It will be of interest to researchers, students and practitioners in nonprofit studies, management and organisation studies, as well as those engaged in leadership and policy who seek a deeper and more reflexive perspective on the challenges facing contemporary nonprofits.
Ewa Bogacz-Wojtanowska is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Management and Social Communication, and Head of the Chair of the Theory and Practice of Organising at the Institute of Public Affairs, Jagiellonian University, Poland.
