Addressing a key social policy problem, this book analyzes modern voluntary organizations through the lens of a new theory of hybrid organizations, which is tested and developed in the context of a range of case studies.
Essential reading for all interested in the future of the third sector.
About the Author DAVID BILLIS is Reader Emeritus at the London School of Economics.
In 1978 he founded PORTVAC, the first university-based programme working with voluntarily organizations.
In 1987 he became Director of the LSE Centre for Voluntary Organisation which extended the work of PORTVAC.
The Centre was later renamed the Centre for Civil Society.
He co-founded the journal Nonprofit Management and Leadership.
He is the only non-American to receive the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from ARNOVA the leading international third sector research association.
Recent posts include Visiting Professor at Imperial College.
He has extensive research and consultancy experience in the public, private and third sector and has published widely in these areas.
His books include Organisational Design, Welfare Bureaucracies, and Organising Public and Voluntary Agencies.
Red Globe Press Hybrid organizations and the third sector: challenges for practice, theory and policy, paperback/david billis
