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  • 19 - Nonprofits as Distributors of Toll Goods

  • from Part III - New Directions
  • Edited by Eva Witesman, Brigham Young University, Utah, Curtis Child, Brigham Young University, Utah
  • Book:
    Reimagining Nonprofits
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    01 February 2024, pp 372-393

  • 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.

  • 4 - What Makes Good Nonprofit Sector Theory?

  • from Part I - Overviews
  • Edited by Eva Witesman, Brigham Young University, Utah, Curtis Child, Brigham Young University, Utah
  • Book:
    Reimagining Nonprofits
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    01 February 2024, pp 71-88

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the nature of nonprofit-sector theory. To do this, we first examine what we theory, and what we mean by nonprofit-sector theory. We also propose a framework for evaluating what makes good nonprofit-sector theory, based on the function of theory (define, describe, explain, prescribe, predict, and evaluate) and the theory's depth, breadth, and relevance. For this volume, we have taken a broad and inclusive approach to nonprofit-sector theory, defining it as answering the questions, “What is the nonprofit sector?” and “Why does the nonprofit sector exist?”

Reimagining Nonprofits
  • Sector Theory in the Twenty-First Century
  • Edited by Eva Witesman, Curtis Child
  • Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    01 February 2024
  • What is the nonprofit sector and why does it exist? Collecting the writing of some of the most creative minds in the field of nonprofit studies, this book challenges our traditional understanding of the role and purpose of the nonprofit sector. It reflects on the ways in which new cultural and economic shifts bring existing assumptions into question and offers new conceptualizations of the nonprofit sector that will inform, provoke, and inspire. Nonprofit organization and activity is an enormously important part of social, cultural, and economic life around the world, but our conceptualization of their place in modern society is far from complete. Reimagining Nonprofits provides fresh insights that are necessary for understanding nonprofit organizations and sectors in the 21st century.