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What are the Key Influences on the Work of Voluntary Agencies?

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To review the key influences on the work of voluntary agencies could be an immense task. Organisational theorists have produced a huge literature, analysing a vast array of influences on the objects of their study. The question of how far any organisation is a product of its environment, the resources on which it depends, internal dynamics or national cultures, to choose but a few, has provided ample debate over the years.

‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said, ‘To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax Of cabbages and kings, And why the sea is boiling hot, And whether pigs have wings.’ Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking Glass

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  1. Marilyn Taylor
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  1. London School of Economics Centre, UK

    David Billis (Director) & Margaret Harris (Assistant Director) (Director) &  (Assistant Director)

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Taylor, M. (1996). What are the Key Influences on the Work of Voluntary Agencies?. In: Billis, D., Harris, M. (eds) Voluntary Agencies. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24485-0_2

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