Research Handbook on Nonprofit Governance

Research Handbooks in Business and Management series

Edited by Gemma Donnelly-Cox, Assistant Professor in Business, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Michael Meyer, Professor for Nonprofit Management, Department for Management, WU Vienna, Austria and Filip Wijkström, Associate Professor, Department of Management and Organization, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

This multi-perspective Research Handbook provides a clear pathway through the nonprofit governance research field, pushing beyond the borders of current theory to expand and deepen the analytical framework for nonprofit governance. It offers an analysis of the basics including definitions, organizational forms and levels of governance, and takes a critical approach towards the normative and prescriptive tendencies in much of contemporary governance scholarship.

‘The Research Handbook examines nonprofit governance at multiple levels from the organisational to the societal, using a wide variety of theoretical perspectives. It contains chapters by many of the leading researchers in the field. It is stimulating and thought provoking. A must read for anyone interested in nonprofit governance.’
– Chris Cornforth, The Open University, UK

‘This book is poised to make significant contributions to future research on nonprofit governance as well as governance more broadly. Its chapters insist that readers understand nonprofit governance within contextualized settings and explore evolving conceptions of “nonprofit” entities, sectors, governing functions, processes, and structures. While research has already expanded beyond the governing board, this volume crackles with opportunities for researchers to investigate nonprofit governance at multiple levels of analysis from numerous theoretical and disciplinary perspectives. Importantly, contributors reflect an international diversity of outlooks that enrich knowledge and invite further interrogation.’
– Melissa Stone, Professor Emerita, University of Minnesota, US

这种状态的艺术volume offers a variety of illuminating approaches to the fundamental problem of governance, providing fresh frameworks to questions of voice and control. Dennis Young’s stellar concluding essay is, by itself, worth the price of admission!’
– Walter W. Powell, Stanford University, US