STARK, Andrew
The distinction between public, nonprofit, and for-profit : revisiting the "core legal" approach - Cary : Oxford University Press, jan. 2011
In studying the characteristics that determine the public, nonprofit, and/or for-profit nature of organizations, public administration scholarship has elaborated upon the dimensional approach (e.g., Bozeman, Barry. 2007. Public values and public interest: Counterbalancing economic individualism. Washington, DC: Georgetown Univ. Press), to the point where it is now furnishing a rich body of theoretical and empirical material on organizational identity. Yet as Bozeman says, there was always another complementary approach to the same set of issues, namely the core legal approach which, as Bozeman, Barry, and Stuart Bretschneider (1994. The publicness puzzle in organization theory: A test of alternative explanations of differences between public and private organizations. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 4:197223) say, is equally important. This article revisits the legal approach, showing that it is as complex and theoretically motivated in its own way as the dimensional approach, and setting out its basic structure. Only once the core legal approach is seen as a more equal partner will it be possible to pursue Bozeman and Bretschneider's call for studies employing both core and dimensional models, in which the two are fully complementary, and the capacities of each are available for conceptualizing the identity of organizationsboth when such identity is settled and when it is contestedand for predicting the consequences for organizational behavior that follow
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The distinction between public, nonprofit, and for-profit : revisiting the "core legal" approach - Cary : Oxford University Press, jan. 2011
In studying the characteristics that determine the public, nonprofit, and/or for-profit nature of organizations, public administration scholarship has elaborated upon the dimensional approach (e.g., Bozeman, Barry. 2007. Public values and public interest: Counterbalancing economic individualism. Washington, DC: Georgetown Univ. Press), to the point where it is now furnishing a rich body of theoretical and empirical material on organizational identity. Yet as Bozeman says, there was always another complementary approach to the same set of issues, namely the core legal approach which, as Bozeman, Barry, and Stuart Bretschneider (1994. The publicness puzzle in organization theory: A test of alternative explanations of differences between public and private organizations. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 4:197223) say, is equally important. This article revisits the legal approach, showing that it is as complex and theoretically motivated in its own way as the dimensional approach, and setting out its basic structure. Only once the core legal approach is seen as a more equal partner will it be possible to pursue Bozeman and Bretschneider's call for studies employing both core and dimensional models, in which the two are fully complementary, and the capacities of each are available for conceptualizing the identity of organizationsboth when such identity is settled and when it is contestedand for predicting the consequences for organizational behavior that follow
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