This volume uses original research to assess the innovative capacity of voluntary organizations and develops a theory of innovation in non-market and nonprofit conditions.

Chapter 1 Voluntary and non-profit organizations and innovation in public services; Chapter 2 Conceptualizing voluntary activity; Chapter 3 Innovations, innovators and innovating; Chapter 4 Research methodology; Chapter 5 Mapping and defining the innovative activity of VNPOs; Chapter 6 Four causal hypotheses and a process; Chapter 7 The innovative capacity of VNPOs;