Exam 3: Theories of the Nonprofit Sector and Nonprofit Organizations

A majority of citizens in a community do not agree with a minority of citizens that the community needs a nonprofit organization to serve the needs of homeless citizens. This sentence is an example of ______.

Excess revenues gained by a nonprofit are invested in stock markets.

A sociological approach for explaining the life and death of an organization is called ______.

Nonprofit organizations differ from government organizations in that they have more flexibility to respond to the needs of diverse groups.

The term "open systems" means organizations interact with their external environments.

Discuss recent research findings regarding the ability of nonprofit organizations to adapt to manage resource dependency.

Nonprofits may not receive any funding from city governments.

Sociologists describe nonprofits as ______.

______ scientists study organizations from a perspective of power relationships.

Compare market failure and contract failure.

The type of market failure in which a breakdown occurs in the relationship between a buyer and a seller is called a/an ______ failure.

Nonprofit organizations are driven by ______.

Failure theories suggest governments should pay to meet the needs of large groups.

One way to reduce dependency and thus maintain more autonomy is to ______.

Mary is writing detailed organizational policies for a nonprofit organization. Mary is practicing ______.

A nonprofit organization provides training sessions to encourage its volunteers to embrace the organization's vision, mission, and values. The nonprofit is applying ______ theory.

A nonprofit organization functioning as a/an _____ system is entirely self-sufficient.

The ______ is the principal standard against which nonprofit performance should be measured.

When individuals do not have complete information to judge the quality of the goods they seek to purchase, they are experiencing ______.

A nonprofit organization landscaped the grounds of a building it occupies. This beautification improved the property values of the residences located across the street. This is an example of a(an) _____ externality.