Authors: Tuula Mittila
The non-profit sector is undergoing a period of radical change. There has been an explosion in the number of non-profit organisations over the past thirty years on the global scale. This is a response to rapidly changing environmental, social and economic conditions, for example, the impact of climatic changes, increasing national debt, the emergence of new diseases, the breakdown of some political structures, and an ongoing succession of armed conflicts. Furthermore, organisations such as European Union, the World bank and the International Monetary Fund have also influenced the development of nonprofits through their capacity to exert influence over the politics adopted by individual governments in a general trend towards globalisation. There are also considerable changes taking place in the way in which the sector operates within individual national boundaries.The purpose of the paper is to scrutinize the changes in an artistic non-profit organisation, namely The Tampere Short Film Festival Association. The starting point of the study is to recognise the basic structure of the organisation and its network by utilising the network approach. Furthermore, I try to recognise different phases in the commercialisation process and factors affecting them. An interesting question raised by this study is the trade-off between the mission and economic effectiveness of the non-profit organisation. The different stakeholders set different, sometimes adverse expectations on the organisation. This issue calls for further research in the future.
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Publish Year: 2003
Conference: Lugano, Switzerland (2003)