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5 - Sector Theorists Should Consider How Social Values Determine Unmet Needs

from Part II - Reflections and Refinements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2024

By
Ruth K. Hansen  and
Gregory R. Witkowski
Edited by
Eva Witesman  and
Curtis Child
Eva Witesman
Affiliation:
Brigham Young University, Utah
Curtis Child
Affiliation:
Brigham Young University, Utah
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Summary

Hansen and Witkowski introduce a new theory to understand how societal needs are met. The authors develop the cross-sectoral BIAS theory, an adaptation of the BIAS model, to assess factors that lead to persistent unmet needs among marginalized populations. Drawing on postcolonial theory, the authors indicate that the standard economic model of understanding the provision of services by market, government, and nonprofit sectors (three-failures theory) systematically fails to account for the underprivileged in society. The cross-sectoral BIAS theory explains that societal biases drive the persistent insufficient provision of goods to marginalized populations by all three sectors.

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social valuesunmet needsBIAS Frameworkcross-sectoral BIAS theorysector theorythree-failure theorypostcolonialismmarginalized populationsstereotypes
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Reimagining Nonprofits
Sector Theory in the Twenty-First Century
 , pp. 91 - 112
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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