The pattern of PPB rejection: Something about organizations, something about PPB

“Pathology” is defined in Webster's dictionary as “… the study of the essential nature of diseases and especially of the structural and functional changes produced by them”. Thus, a pathological study can reveal information concerning both a disease or toxin and the organism to which it is introduced.Planning, programming and budgeting (PPB) was introduced in not-for-profit organizations in order to improve organizational planning and control. It failed. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a study in pathology concerning PPB and the not-for-profit organization. PPB is considered to be the toxin. The not-for-profit organization is considered to be the organism. The scalpels employed in conducting the examination were forged in the organizational, planning and control, and general systems theory literatures.