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Relating the Central and the Local
Author(s) -
Taylor Marilyn,
Lansley John
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
nonprofit management and leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.844
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1542-7854
pISSN - 1048-6682
DOI - 10.1002/nml.10405
Subject(s) - dependency (uml) , autonomy , dimension (graph theory) , relation (database) , organizational structure , local development , local government , sociology , political science , economic geography , regional science , public administration , geography , computer science , law , mathematics , artificial intelligence , pure mathematics , database
Although a number of valuable models of central‐local relationships in the nonprofit sector have been developed, particularly in relation to federal structures, there has been a tendency to assume that in any given organizational relationship central‐local structures will follow one common pattern. We argue that wider strategies are available: central dependency along one dimension may run with greater local autonomy along another. Such mixed tight‐loose structures may be of considerable importance in the “boundaryless” organizational environment of the future.