SOCIAL MANAGEMENT: the potential contribution of a Brazilian research tradition to the international nonprofit debate

Abstract

The paper presents the convergences and divergences of Nonprofit Organizations (NPO) theory and Social Management. Then, it present the possibilities of development of Social Management in the NPO. At the end of the paper, the main contributions of Brazilian Social Management theory to the international nonprofit debate are summarized and leave open some guidelines to future researchers that may want to follow this research stream..