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HYBRID ORGANIZATIONS AND THE THIRD SECTOR: CHALLENGES FOR PRACTICE, THEORY AND POLICY ‐ by D. Billis

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Vincent
Date01 March 2013
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.2012.02098.x
AuthorPete Alcock
Published date01 March 2013
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HYBRID ORGANIZATIONS AND THE THIRD SECTOR: CHALLENGES
FOR PRACTICE, THEORY AND POLICY
D. Billis
Palgrave, 2010, pp. xviii +270
This book is the most recent of a number of books edited by Billis and his former
colleagues at the now defunct LSE Centre for Voluntary Organisation and published by
Macmillan/Palgrave. As with the previous collections, this new book brings together a
number of the leading researchers on the voluntary or third sector, all of whom provide
lively and up-to-date reports of recent research on policy and practice in the sector.
For this collection of new research reports and ref‌lections alone, this will be a valuable
addition to the reading lists of all those with an interest in third sector scholarship; and
indeed some will no doubt read it with just this in mind.
However, there is more to this collection than just a summary of recent research
and scholarship. In his role as editor, Billis has also sought to explore some interesting
and important theoretical and empirical trends within third sector research, and to
employ the f‌indings of his fellow contributors to extend and exemplify these. There is an
overarching narrative which runs through the book therefore, and Billis expounds this in
Public Administration Vol. 91, No. 1, 2013 (232–250)
©2013 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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