Description
Book SynopsisOffers a valuable resource for scholars, teachers, students, and nonprofit practitioners interested in understanding nonprofit work from a communication perspective
This sophisticated yet accessible book explores the dynamics of organizational communication in the context of nonprofit work. It delves deeply into the subjects of communication and social construction and develops several key subject areas and issues including leadership, management, and governance; the marketization of nonprofit work; collaboration and organizational partnerships; meaningful labor; and international nonprofit work.
Understanding Nonprofit Work: A Communication Perspective is the first resource to bring together the considerable and voluminous amount of communication scholarship and nonprofit research available in academia. Moving beyond the simplistic notion of communication as merely the transmission of information, it instead develops a more insightful approach to nonprof
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“It is an essential addition to the existing literature, as it expands the currently limited work that combines communication and nonprofits.” - Voluntas (2021) 32:1184–1185, March 2021
Table of ContentsPreface vii
About the Authors x
Acknowledgments xi
1 Developing a Communication Perspective on the Nonprofit 1
Matthew A. Koschmann and Matthew L. Sanders
2 Communicative L-M-G: Leadership, Management, and Governance 29
Matthew A. Koschmann
3 The Marketization of Nonprofit Work 53
Matthew L. Sanders
4 Collabrocation: Thinking Communicatively about Collaboration 77
Matthew A. Koschmann
5 Meaningful Work and the Nonprofit 109
Matthew L. Sanders
6 International Nonprofit Work 137
Matthew A. Koschmann
Conclusion: Understanding What it Means to be Nonprofit 159
Matthew A. Koschmann and Matthew L. Sanders
Index 169
