Mission Driven: The Politics of Organizational Ethics

In recent years, the term "mission-driven" has become so ubiquitous, it is difficult to determine what organizations are not mission-driven. Its ubiquitousness signals something important, however: that we expect organizations to be moral actors that hold beliefs.

In this book, Sorcha A. Brophy describes organizational politics that occur around the creation of policies on hot button topics like gay marriage, racial diversity, and abortion, arguing that regardless of whether or not members...