Grassroots AssociationsGrassroots Associations is a comprehensive review and critique of empirical and theoretical research on grassroots, nonprofit and voluntary organizations. David Horton Smith examines in depth the distinctive nature and characteristics of a previously under-studied area which includes such groups as Alchoholics Anonymous, community-environmental action committees and church Bible study groups. He addresses: group formation, structure, process, leadership, and life cycle change; effectiveness; the influence such associations have on society; the future of grassroots associations, which he sees as integral to a postmodern society moving towards participatory democracy, self-determinism and individual choice. |
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... nonprofit organizations and voluntary action , applied and scholarly , is a field of study that is , thus , a bit more than 25 years old ( Smith , 1993a , 1995e ) . AVAS , which since has become the Association for Research on Nonprofit ...
... Nonprofit Organizations . " Pp . 303-24 in The Jossey - Bass Handbook on Nonprofit Leadership and Management , edited by R. Herman and Associates . San Francisco : Jossey - Bass . Nadel , S. F. 1957. The Theory of Social Structure ...
... Nonprofit and Volun- tary Sector Quarterly 20 : 137-50 . . • 1992a ... Organizations and Voluntary Action , Berkeley , CA , October . 1995a ... Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action , Cleveland , OH , November . . 1995b ...
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Revising FlatEarth Maps | 33 |
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