Druga twarz trzeciego sektora. Współczesne wyzwania zarządzania organizacjami pozarządowymi

Abstract

The book consists of five chapters. In each case, in addition to embedding the issues within various conceptual and theoretical frameworks, the author shows the results of research by both global and Polish researchers, also attempting to make some summaries. Where the Polish third sector occurs slightly different, she focuses in particular on these differences and explains their causes. In each chapter, the reader will also find various specific examples of processes and phenomena taking place in non-governmental organizations or in their environment, which illustrate the issues discussed. The first chapter addresses the changes that have occurred over the last thirty years in the understanding of what non-governmental organizations are, and presents evidence of their gradual hybridization. The second chapter discusses global megatrends that influence the functioning of non-governmental organizations and transform them. Much attention was also paid to the processes of non-governmental organizations becoming more similar to enterprises. The third chapter deals primarily with the traditional functions performed by non-governmental organizations. It also presents changes in the implementation of these functions. The fourth chapter is entirely devoted to dysfunctions and irregularities in the management of non-governmental organizations. Chapter five concerns the organization’s struggle with paradoxes. At the end of the chapter, the author presents two dominant models in the literature on the subject of dealing with paradoxes in the management of non-governmental organizations. The monograph is a study primarily addressed to researchers of the third sector, its leaders, but also to all those who care about the development and success of civil society in Poland and around the world.