Abstract
While communication scholars have spent a great deal of time analyzing the culture and communication surrounding profit-seeking businesses in the last twenty years, relatively little communication research has focused on the unique communication characteristics of the nonprofits. The time has come for us to take notice of these growing businesses and to formulate organizational communication theories reflecting the structures and operations of the wave of nonprofits that continues to rise around us.
This paper will examine the nonprofits association to sketch their purposes, their economic and political growth, and their organizational properties and communication characteristics. The paper will then suggest questions which can provide focus and direction for further investigation in organizational communication theories.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Speech Communication
Volume
22
Issue
2
First Page
55
Last Page
61
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Dabbs, Gordon
(1990)
"Communication and Nonprofit Organization: Directions for the 1990s,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 22:
No.
2, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol22/iss2/4
Copyright
©1990 Iowa Communication Association
