The author deconstructs the prevailing conceptualization of nonprofit marketing and concludes it rests on three\nprinciples: voluntary exchange, an open system organization, and self-interest motivation. A review of the genesis of\nthese principles revealed that alternative principles were ignored in the social science literature. Based on a qualitative\nanalysis and critical hermeneutic approach a revised conceptualization of nonprofit marketing was suggested which\nincorporated the principles of reciprocity, the features of a contingency-choice system model of formal organizations,\nand collectivistic interest motivation. A revised definition of nonprofit marketing is offered based on these principles.
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