King, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-0277-8444,
2017.
Becoming business-like: governing the nonprofit professional.
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 46 (2), pp. 241-260.
ISSN 0899-7640
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Abstract
How do nonprofit practitioners learn to understand themselves as nonprofit professionals? Although the literature has explored the extent and repercussions of nonprofits becoming more business-like and professionalized, little attention has been placed on the process through which this professionalization occurs. Using an autoethnography based on my practice as cofounder and eventual manager of a small nonprofit organization, this article narrates the range of practices and mechanisms through which I came to understand myself as a nonprofit professional. Following Mitchell Dean, who draws heavily on Michel Foucault’s later work, this article argues that professionalization is taught to nonprofit practitioners through two intertwined mechanisms: the “technologies of performance,” which include funding, and evaluation and monitoring procedures; and “technologies of agency,” which involve the often subtle socialization mechanisms into the sector. It thus deepens our understanding of how the transition toward being more business-like is occurring.
Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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Publication Title: | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | ||||
Creators: | King, D. | ||||
Publisher: | Sage | ||||
Date: | 2017 | ||||
Volume: | 46 | ||||
Number: | 2 | ||||
ISSN: | 0899-7640 | ||||
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Rights: | Copyright © 2017 by Association For Research On Nonprofit Organizations And Voluntary Action | ||||
Divisions: | Schools > Nottingham Business School | ||||
Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||
Date Added: | 08 Sep 2016 08:22 | ||||
Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2017 14:05 | ||||
URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/28405 |
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