ABSTRACT
This chapter takes us inside the non-governmental organization and examines the internal management issues which have led some people to argue that NGOs face distinctive challenges which make general management prescriptions difficult. One of the earliest academic discussions of third sector management can be found in a special issue of the US journal Public Administration Review published in 1975, which argues that while the writings of Levitt and Etzioni in 1975 usefully identified the roles and relevance of third sector organizations and brought their existence to the attention of policy makers and scholars, they ‘reveal little about the internal workings of third sector organizations’ (McGill and Wooton 1975: 447).
