Introductory Essay
From a Closed System to an Open System: A Parallel Critical Review of the Intellectual Trajectories of Publicness and Nonprofitness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12250034 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wenjue Lu Knutsen (0000-0003-0412-541X, corresponding author), Kathy Lenore Brock |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1113-1131 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-21 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Voluntas Revista Internacional de Filosofia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2179-3786 • E-ISSN: 1573-7888 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11266-014-9498-2 |
| OpenAlex | W1993723987 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 33 |
The study of the space between the state and the market (referred as “the study of the in-between space” throughout the article) has suffered from somewhat of an identity crisis since its inception. The crisis is reflected by the lack of a unified terminology, the lack of consensus on the principal characteristic of organizations in the space, and the debates on blurring sectoral boundaries. This article first provides a critical review of the intellectual trajectories of the search for publicness and the search for nonprofitness through the lens of organizational theory. By contrasting and analyzing the underlying reasons of both intellectual trajectories, this review concludes ownership (nonprofitness or publicness) is not the definitive characteristic of the subject organizations, and an open and multidimensional approach is more suitable. Second, this article then introduces articles included in this special issue and analyzing their common theme-context matters
Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · Critical theory · Epistemology · Identity (music · Identity crisis · Lens (geology · Library science · Political science · Principal (computer security · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Subject (documents · Terminology · Theme (computing · Through-the-lens metering · Computer Science · Engineering · History · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Public Policy and Administration Research · Religion, Society, and Development
Organizations
All organizations are public
Growing Civil Society
A Model and Typology of Government-NGO Relationships
The structure of scientific revolutions
The Third Sector in Europe
Hybrid Organizations and the Third Sector
On Being Nonprofit
"Inventing the Nonprofit Sector" and Other Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations
The Sociology of Nonprofit Organizations and Sectors
Envoi
Of Market Failure, Voluntary Failure, and Third-Party Government
Dimensions of Publicness and Organizational Performance
Social Origins of Civil Society
A Third Sector in the Third Millennium
The Nonprofit Sector in Canada
Adapted Institutional Logics of Contemporary Nonprofit Organizations
Language, Symbolism, and Politics
Changing boundaries of the political
Decision Making in Public and Private Organizations
Premises of Public Administration
Publicness and Organizational Performance
Comparing Public and Private Management
Comparing Public and Private Organizations
The Role of Nonprofit Enterprise
A Paradigm Shift in Third Sector Theory and Practice
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |