The Emergence of Hybrid Organizational Forms: Combining Identity-Based Service Provision and Political Action

Minkoff, Debra C.

doi:10.1177/0899764002313004

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“…6 We use the term ''hybridization'' in the biological sense, that is, in the sense of the interbreeding of individuals from genetically distinct populations. This concept is also used in organizational theory (Minkoff 2002;Hargrave and Van de Ven 2006) and in public administration studies (Christensen and Laegreid 2001). Here, generally speaking, hybridization means the combination of different institutional logics.…”

Section: Hybridizationmentioning

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How policy instruments are chosen: patterns of decision makers’ choices

2016

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Policy instruments are a fundamental component of public policies. Policy instruments are often a result of mediation within the policy design process, whenever decision makers reshape existing instruments without introducing any real innovation. This results in imitation, layering and ambiguity in tool choice selection, and raises the theoretical problem of the logic according to which decision makers choose certain specific policy instruments rather than others. Decision makers may have different reasons for choosing certain specific instruments, although these reasons should be connected to the two main purposes of decision-making, that is, the search for effectiveness and the construction of a shared sense, a common acceptance. Thus, the choice of instruments is a question of potentially conflicting drivers that decision makers have to cope with within a specific decisional situation, when asked to solve those problems that have arisen. This paper examines this question and offers an analytical framework based on the two main factors in terms of which the selection of instruments is channelled and assessed: legitimacy and instrumentality. The boundaries created by how decision makers perceive these two dimensions mean that only four selection patterns can be chosen by decision makers: hybridization, stratification, contamination or routinization.

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Section: Hybridizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

How policy instruments are chosen: patterns of decision makers’ choices

2016

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“…Many have adapted their missions to note their dual roles as charitable service providers and policy advocates. These appropriately named "hybrid organizations" (Minkoff 2002) are involved with most types of charitable services. Marwell (2004), for example, noted the rise of "machine politics" community based organizations (CBOs), which distribute community services and create reliable voting blocs to elect officials who support the group's mission.…”

Section: The Great Lobbying Dividementioning

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Advocacy Inequalities among Nonprofits: Do Mission and Tax Status Make Differences

Chand¹

2016

ARP

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Scholars have long recognized the high levels of participation by organized business in the “pressure system” (Baumgartner and Leech 2001; Schattschneider 1960; Scholzman and Tierney 1986) and have recently begun studying charitable group involvement, or lack thereof, in the policy influence process (Berry and Arons 2003; Berry 2005 and 2006). Few studies, however, have made comparisons of activities across interest group sectors; and none have done so focusing exclusively on nonprofit associations. This study contributes to the recent nonprofit lobbying literature by examining the lobbying activities of membership associations that issue legislator ratings, or “scorecards.” Creating a sample from scorecard-issuing groups limits focus to nonprofits that have an indicated interest in congressional policy. Specifically, this study attempts to determine if business associations spend significantly more and charitable associations significantly less on lobbying activities. Using analysis of variance methods, the author finds that business associations do spend significantly more on lobbying than their charitable and ideological tax-exempt counterparts. Labor unions fall somewhere in between business and charitable and ideological groups. Finally, groups employing “complex organizational structures” (Boris and Krehely 2002; Reid 2001) lobby at higher levels than groups with one tax status, although this finding does not apply to charitable groups.

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“…The choice is based on a critique of the latter, since in defining nonprofit regimes it does not focus on the composition of different societal functions performed simultaneously by an individual NPO. In the prevailing macro-approach NPOs are assigned either to a group of service providing, advocacy/ expressive oriented or hybrid nonprofit organizations (Minkoff 2002). The theoretical framework used in the present study provides more nuanced information on a spectrum of nonprofits' societal functions, rather than assigning the whole non-profit sector of a country to a single dominant function out of only two possible options (service or expressive), as it has been done in the JHCNPS Project.…”

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The Multi-Functionality of Professional and Business Associations in a Transitional Context: Empirical Evidence from Russia

Ivanova

Neumayr

2016

Nonprofit Policy Forum

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In the literature it is generally assumed that activities of voluntary membership based associations operating in stable institutional environments are multi-faceted, contributing simultaneously to societal, economic and political spheres. This article, drawing on the concept of functions of non-profit organizations investigates, whether the multi-functional character of associations holds true in the context of transitional Russia. The paper examines the relative importance of the advocacy, community building and service delivery functions, fulfilled by different types of associations. The original empirical data from exploratory interviews with 15 leading experts on associational activities was triangulated by a confirmatory survey of 215 associations across Russia. The results confirm that the absolute majority of the examined associations are multifunctional. Advocacy is considered to be the most important function for all types of associations. The findings suggest that business associations and intermediary unions are more active in policy advocacy directed toward the government, while liberal professional societies are more engaged in public advocacy addressing society at large. This study highlights importance of domestic associations for countries in transition as an institutional infrastructure of organized civil society, democratic development and market economy.

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The Emergence of Hybrid Organizational Forms: Combining Identity-Based Service Provision and Political Action

Cited by 235 publications

References 46 publications

How policy instruments are chosen: patterns of decision makers’ choices

How policy instruments are chosen: patterns of decision makers’ choices

Advocacy Inequalities among Nonprofits: Do Mission and Tax Status Make Differences

The Multi-Functionality of Professional and Business Associations in a Transitional Context: Empirical Evidence from Russia

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