caa a22 4500 475829972 CHVBK 20180406123839.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008920008693 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008920008693 Sokolowski S. Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Wyman Building, 3400 N. Charles St., 21218;, Baltimore, Maryland aut The Discreet Charm of the Nonprofit Form: Service Professionals and Nonprofit Organizations (Poland 1989-1993) [Elektronische Daten] [S. Sokolowski] This paper examines the role of social proximity (nonprofit) organizations in the process of professional innovation that involved a transfer of human service technologies from Western Europe and the United States to Poland during the 1989 political-economic reform. To explain that role, the paper introduces a theoretical model that posits the existence of elective affinity between the social proximity form and occupational interests of service providers. As the existing system of professions is no longer sufficient to legitimate expert services and curb competition among different types of providers, the social proximity form bestows social legitimacy on novel or controversial types of services, and is thus instrumental in marketing those services. The proposed model is supported by quantitative data and in-depth interviews. Theoretical implications are discussed. International Society for Third-Sector Research, 2000 social proximity organizations nationallicence nonprofit nationallicence innovation nationallicence professions nationallicence Poland nationallicence Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 11/2(2000-06-01), 141-159 0957-8765 11:2<141 2000 11 11266 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008920008693 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008920008693 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sokolowski S. Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Wyman Building, 3400 N. Charles St., 21218;, Baltimore, Maryland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 11/2(2000-06-01), 141-159 0957-8765 11:2<141 2000 11 11266 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer