caa a22 4500 477066623 CHVBK 20180405111414.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02354065 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02354065 Ware Alan Worcester College, Oxford aut On scale and scope and the history of the non-profit sector in the United Kingdom [Elektronische Daten] [Alan Ware] This article argues that Alfred Chandler's analysis of the British firm cannot be transposed to the very different context of non-profit organisations in Britain. Both in relation to charitable non-profit organisations and mutual benefit organisations, Chandler's theory of the development of firms does not help explain organisational development. The main thrust of the argument is that the explanation for the smaller size of charitable non-profits in Britain than in America is largely institutional and partly socio-cultural; the explanation does not lie in any failure in Britain to adopt new techniques of management and organisation. With mutual benefit non-profits, a rather different account is presented. ‘Mutuals' which had a strong fraternal element were relatively more successful in Britain than in America, although there is less difference between the two countries with regard to ‘non-fraternal' mutuals. Once again, it is argued that institutional and socio-cultural factors—rather than the factors identified by Chandler—account for this. International Society for Third-Sector Research, 1996 Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Kluwer Academic Publishers 7/1(1996-03-01), 17-28 0957-8765 7:1<17 1996 7 11266 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02354065 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02354065 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ware Alan Worcester College, Oxford aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Kluwer Academic Publishers 7/1(1996-03-01), 17-28 0957-8765 7:1<17 1996 7 11266 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer