by David Lewis (Author)
The first edition of this book was published in 2001 by Routledge and was the first academic text on the important new emerging field of NGO management. It sets out the field for researchers with a new and original conceptual framework, contains a comprehensive review of existing literature from a variety of disciplines (including management, development studies, and social policy) and provides wide-ranging examples from the author's own practical and research experience.
New to this edition:
Revealing the distinctive organizational challenges faced by NGOs this second edition provides a fully updated and revised text that will prove invaluable to all those studying or working in NGOs, the voluntary sector or development studies.
Visit the Companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/978-0-415-37093-6.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 285
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 07 Dec 2006
ISBN 10: 0415370930
ISBN 13: 9780415370936
'A must read for scholars because of the breadth of literature covered and for students because it gives them an in-depth view of the complexity of the subject and provides examples of how that complexity plays itself out in the day-to-day realities of NGO life.' - Ann Marie Thomson, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
'...this is a very impressive and useful summary of the literature.' - Sylvia I. Bergh, Voluntas