The increasing marketization of the nonprofit sector is well documented. Scholars have explored its effects on management and discussed potentially harmful implications, especially as regards sector's traditional roles service provider advocate, facilitator democratic discourses, preserver civil society. However, this scholarship has not fully implications a central figure in discourses market—the Entrepreneur—and entrepreneurialism generally, for sector. This article seeks to remedy by...

Public service work and public-serving institutions are evolving by incorporating neoliberal modes of working more more. Contemporary research oftentimes neglects to account for these changes in how we understand public work, however. This article draws on the meaningfulness motivation literature explore workers making sense their environments create meaningful experiences under conditions. The findings from 45 interviews with nonprofit managers presented compared. changing world has...

There has been much debate about the change Barack Obama represents. This article considers this question by using Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality to explore underlying governmental rationality his administration’s policies and management practices. Obama’s is examined via Open Government Directive, arguably central initiative administration. The concludes that may be viewed as a mutation within neoliberalism, which authors call info-liberalism—one deploys novel, integrative...

This article examines the "citizen side" of performance and audit revolution through an exploration individuals engaged in a "data-driven life." Through exploratory qualitative study individuals' video logs taken from "Quantified Self" Web site, we examine how are using information technology 2.0 interfaces to generate data about themselves for themselves. We explore questions, "Who subjects governing today?" "How do care govern themselves, put use?" analyze different kinds self-government,...

Traditionally the nonprofit sector has played a dual role in American society, providing venues for both civic engagement and care those who are unable to participate fully either democratic governance or marketplace. As becomes increasingly marketized, some scholars have developed "counter-discourses" that seek reassert of nonprofits. These counter-discourses vital maintaining sector's thus civil society; however, they neglect caring by Moreover, plays engagement. Drawing on feminist...

Nonprofit work is oftentimes viewed as inherently meaningful work, but the world of nonprofit changing by becoming increasingly marketized. These changes are impacting workers’ conception and experience work. Drawing from scholarship on neoliberal marketization, enterprise culture, this exploratory study examines how an marketized environment influencing managers’ Findings interviews demonstrate that managers conceive in expected ways (e.g., through serving others). At same time, findings...

<h3>Background:</h3> Patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) are at the forefront of transformation primary care as part health systems reform. Despite robust literature describing implementation challenges, few studies describe strategies being used to overcome these challenges. This article addresses this gap through observations exemplary PCMHs in Oregon, where Oregon Health Authority supports and recognizes Patient-Centered Primary Care Homes (PCPCH). <h3>Methods:</h3> Twenty PCPCHs were...

Some scholars argue that the nonprofit sector is a venue in which citizens can both learn and exercise their civic duty. Others contend has adopted logic values of marketplace, imperiling its ability to effectively promote democratic values. Unlike these critiques, describe consequences marketized service, this article examines how discourses market are being extended sector. Specifically, it takes case study approach explore role professional associations play marketizing

Abstract Nonprofit scholars and practitioners alike adhere to a long-held assumption that nonprofit work is, will remain, inherently meaningful work. The long-term marketization of the sector coupled with influence COVID-19 pandemic has undercut this narrative. Our research on indicates while many workers do find their meaningful, pay, flexibility, work/life balance are increasingly important them. This commentary suggests leaders can no longer presume motivated by prosocial values seek out...

This article offers a new framework for understanding the role that nonprofit organizations play in American life. Popular sentiment and contemporary theory suggest nonprofits hold special purpose: They provide assistance when typical functioning of economic political institutions fails. Drawing on critical perspective afforded by genealogy Foucault’s writings government liberalism, this proposes an alternative reading development sector. alternate history suggests sector underpins it...

Nonprofit management classrooms are filled with students who yearn to "do good" in the world and yet, practice, they confront a dissonance between their vision of doing good realities nonprofit work. This is part created by contemporary education (NME) through development perpetuation selective historical tradition sector which mythologizes its These traditions myths based squarely white American Eurocentric values downplay histories people color thus perpetuate whiteness as central norms...

Since implementation of the Network Schools Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) standards for accreditation in 2009, public administration programs have been developing programmatic competencies that reflect NASPAA’s universal standards. Likewise, myriad efforts analyzed data related to student program progress toward achievement these competencies. This article adds conversation by recounting approach assessing used Department at Portland State University. There, newly...

As part of its strategy to achieve the Triple Aim, Oregon Health Authority implemented Patient-Centered Primary Care Home (PCPCH) Program in 2009. In 2014, program recognized more than 500 primary care practices and had become an essential component Oregon's for transforming health services delivery. To assist with evaluating practices' achievement PCPCH model along 6 core attributes (access, accountability, comprehensive care, continuity, coordination, person-centered care), research team...

Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Additional informationNotes on contributorsBillie SandbergBillie Sandberg is an assistant professor in the Division of Public Administration at Hatfield School Government Portland State University. Her current research interests include critical social theory and public governance, with a particular focus philanthropy nonprofit sector. most recent work has appeared Administrative Theory & Praxis, Society, Voluntas.

People involved in the development of radical innovations tend to feel a lot enthusiasm. It has been claimed that, fact, this enthusiasm fosters innovativeness. The purpose study is analyse how created and sustained process. theoretical framework combines previous literature on champions enthusiasm-creating systems. analyses five processes innovation. results indicate that it not only but also innovation-development teams who contribute spreading throughout organizations. Eventually, spreads...

Neoliberal marketisation is altering the nature of non-profit work, leaving workers to navigate a ‘double bind’ mission- and market-based values. Some feminist scholars suggest these dynamics are particularly challenging for female workers. Drawing on larger study meaningful work neoliberal as well contemporary critical scholarship, this exploratory examines how neoliberalism’s entrepreneurial subject manifests along gender lines among managers. Data from interviews with 28 managers...