An Organizational Ecology of National Self-Help/Mutual-Aid Organizations

Autor:	Matthew E. Archibald
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Economic growth business.industry Organizational ecology Institutionalisation media_common.quotation_subject Social Welfare Public relations Diversification (marketing strategy) Self-help Bureaucracy Sociology Market share Mutual aid business Social Sciences (miscellaneous) media_common
Zdroj:	Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. 36:598-621
ISSN:	1552-7395 0899-7640
DOI:	10.1177/0899764006297666
Popis:	Although a considerable amount of research on modern self-help/mutual aid has been undertaken during the past several decades, studies have yet to address the question What are the organizational dynamics underlying the institutionalization of self-help/mutual aid? As a partial answer to this question, the author describes the central patterns of growth, decline, and persistence of national self-help/mutual-aid organizations, their formal diversification, and the extent to which subpopulations gain market share. In addition to using an organizational—ecological focus to map the trajectory of voluntary organizations, this article builds on resource partitioning theory by applying its central insights to subtypes of organizations. Expansion of self-help/mutual aid is remarkably similar to the trajectories of commercial and bureaucratic populations, but expectations that generalist concentration fosters growth of specialist organizations are not supported. Specialists dominate generalists except among medical self-help/ mutual aid. Implications for future research are discussed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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