Business-Like and Still Serving Society? Investigating the Relationship Between NPOs Being Business-Like and Their Societal Roles

Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) becoming business-like is a contested issue. Some understand the adoption of practices by NPOs as case adopting rational myths through institutional isomorphism and thus potentially dangerous for NPOs’ ability to fulfill their unique societal roles. Others are more optimistic, arguing that technical rationality possible in practices, such can therefore support fulfilling wide range Drawing on survey data Flanders, we examine relationship between extent which use they engage various We find weakly related All roles positively nonprofit managerialism unrelated reliance commercial funding. Our results suggest certain optimism regarding approaches justified.