Muslim community-based health organisations: a hybrid of voluntary, religious and healthcare logics

Muslim community-based health organisations (MCBHOs) represent a new wave of non-profit organisations outside of mosques and Islamic community centres. In this article we examine MBCHOs’ core management competencies because they are instantiations of institutional logics, which result in different f...

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Published in:Voluntary sector review 2022-11, Vol.13 (3), p.436-461
Main Authors: Shen, Gordon C., Chahal, Ryan, Khan, Nabil A., Hussain, Syed H., Khan, Ghada, Adam, Atif, Wajid, Arshia, Laird, Lance D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Charities
Community centers
Community health care
Health services
Human resource management
Human resources management
Islam
Mosques
Muslims
Nonprofit organizations
Ontology
Patient assessment
Patients
Profits
Public health
Religion
Resource management
Segregation
Taxation
Voluntarism
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Summary:Muslim community-based health organisations (MCBHOs) represent a new wave of non-profit organisations outside of mosques and Islamic community centres. In this article we examine MBCHOs’ core management competencies because they are instantiations of institutional logics, which result in different forms of organisational hybridity within the third sector. Theoretically, we focus on the instantiations that are associated with a societal institutional logic (religion) and two organisational field logics (voluntarism and healthcare). Empirically, we draw from a survey, maps, tax filings and strategic plans. We observed convergences in financial and human resource management and divergences in community engagement and patient assessment among 110 MCBHOs located in the United States. Volunteering and patient care hold the meaning of faith. Our findings suggest that most MCBHOs resemble an assimilated hybrid, characterised by managerial practices that adhere to the core logics of healthcare and voluntarism, with traces of the Islamic religious logic. We thus introduce the concept of ‘faithwashing’.
ISSN:2040-8056
2040-8064
DOI:10.1332/204080521X16573417795625