directing or monitoring) can he distinguished from the style of this management (such as consultative, participatory, cooperative or top down). In other words, the fact that some thing ‘gets done’ is only one aspect of management, because it may also be important to consider the way in which it is done. This dichotomy is particularly important for thinking about third sector organizations, because most third sector organizations tend to assert the primacy of ‘values’ in their organizational set-up. Some NGOs have been observed going so far as to suggest that the fact that they are trying to do something about a problem is more important than worrying about whether what they are doing is effective or adequate (Riddell and Robinson 1995). An issue of current concern for NGOs is the idea that as third sector organizations engage in closer relationships with states and donors in contractual service delivery roles, they may take on more and more of the characteristics of private sector or public sector organizations and lose this distinctive, value driven character (Edwards 1996; Fowler 1997).