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DEINSTITUTIONALISED OR REINSTITUTIONALISED? DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NONPROFIT HUMAN SERVICES SECTOR
Author(s) -
McDonald Catherine
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1997.tb01338.x
Subject(s) - order (exchange) , project commissioning , nonprofit sector , human services , state (computer science) , publishing , public relations , process (computing) , business , field (mathematics) , welfare , welfare state , public administration , management , sociology , political science , economics , economic growth , market economy , law , finance , computer science , mathematics , algorithm , pure mathematics , operating system , politics
Recent developments in the environment surrounding the nonprofit human services sector in Australia have been viewed with some concern, especially given the role of the sector within the Australian welfare state. This paper reviews these developments, noting that some are less visible than others, and that the process of change is more widespread than often perceived. By explicitly employing a theoretical framework derived from organisational theory the paper argues that the contemporary experience of the sector, characterised as the existing institutional order of the field, is set to undergo substantial revision as it is incorporated within an emerging new institutional order of the market and the state as market.