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15 - Nonprofits as Part of an Engineered Social Economy

from Part III - New Directions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2024

By
Meeyoung Lamothe ,
Jiwon Suh ,
Misun Lee ,
Hee Soun Jang ,
Bok Gyo Jeong  and
Seongho An
Edited by
Eva Witesman  and
Curtis Child
Eva Witesman
Affiliation:
Brigham Young University, Utah
Curtis Child
Affiliation:
Brigham Young University, Utah
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Summary

Lamothe and colleagues view the nonprofit sector as being intentionally engineered or designed by government to create specific behaviors in the economy. This chapter examines the ways in which government and legal structures envision desirable outcomes in the broad economy and develop laws and policies intended to yield specific institutional state-sanctioned outcomes in the private market. Drawing on the Korean context as an example, the authors explore what government design of the social sector says about not only the strong-state context present in the global East, but also how this lens helps us to reinterpret our understanding of the legal underpinnings of the nonprofit sector elsewhere.

Keywords

social enterprisesocial economyengineered social economygovernment-led social economygovernment design of the social sectornonprofit–government relationshipdevelopmental stateSouth Korea
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Reimagining Nonprofits
Sector Theory in the Twenty-First Century
 , pp. 291 - 312
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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