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Research handbook on nonprofit governance, edited by Gemma Donnelly-Cox, Michael Meyer, Filip Wijkström

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Research handbook on nonprofit governance

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edited by Gemma Donnelly-Cox, Michael Meyer, Filip Wijkström

Research handbooks in business and management series

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. Divided into four distinctly thematic parts, contributors provide an in-depth review of the last 20 years, building on the foundations of classical contributions and further exploring new theoretical approaches, while examining the governance challenges of diverse types of organizations, including those from both developed and developing countries. Future challenges including multilevel governance are expertly addressed, and insights leading towards a unified theory are proposed. This thoroughly engaging Research Handbook will be an excellent resource for scholars in business and strategic management, nonprofit management and civil society, interested in topics such as nonprofit governance practice and boards of directors, governance theory, stakeholder management, membership organizations, foundations and hybrid organizations. Teachers of nonprofit management will also find this invaluable as it addresses both the core concepts and the most recent developments. --, Provided by publisher

1 Deepening and broadening the field: introduction to Research. Handbook on Nonprofit Governance 1 Gemma Donnelly-Cox, Michael Meyer and Filip Wijkström PART I FUNDAMENTALS OF NONPROFIT GOVERNANCE 2 Normative understandings of nonprofit governance: everyday discourses and research perspectives 27 Florentine Maier and Michael Meyer 3 Accountability and transparency: cornerstones of civil society governance 46 Jurgen Willems 4 Nonprofit governance and external environments 71 Wolfgang Bielefeld and Fredrik O. Andersson 5 Who owns your nonprofit? A reconceptualization of nonprofit ownership 98 Stephanie A. Koolen-Maas 6 Regulatory governance of nonprofit organizations: legal frameworks and voluntary self-regulation 116 Stefan Toepler and Helmut K. Anheier PART II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS 7 Neoinstitutional theory and nonprofit governance research 141 Renate E. Meyer, Dennis Jancsary and Markus A. Höllerer 8 Actorhood as governance in neoliberal world culture 165 Patricia Bromley 9 Agents and stewards in nonprofit governance 186 Marc Jegers 10 Who really governs? Nonprofit governance, stakeholder theory and the dominant coalition perspective 196 Fredrik O. Andersson and David O. Renz 11 How nonprofit governance studies can be enriched by the commons framework: towards a cross-fertilization agenda of research 220 Philippe Eynaud and Jean-Louis Laville PART III GOVERNANCE FOR SPECIFIC TYPES OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS 12 The governance of foundations 236 Georg von Schnurbein 13 Democratic governance in membership-based organizations 258 Johan Hvenmark and Torbjörn Einarsson 14 Gate-keeping nonprofit governance: evaluative criteria and their rankings in nomination committee selection processes 279 Cecilia Stenling, Josef Fahlén, Anna-Maria Strittmatter and Eivind Å. Skille 15 International nongovernmental organization governance: brokering between developed countries and the developing world 294 Urs Jäger and José Pablo Valverde 16 Hybrid organizations as sites for reimagining organizational governance 311 Johanna Mair and Miriam Wolf PART IV FUTURE CHALLENGES 17 Nonprofit organizations in public governance 327 Annette Zimmer and Steven Rathgeb Smith 18 Multilevel governance and the role of civil society organizations in the European Union system 352 Carlo Ruzza 19 The marketization of the third sector? Trends, impacts and implications 371 Michael J. Roy, Angela M. Eikenberry and Simon Teasdale 20 Twists and turns of the practice of accountability in the nonprofit sector: the thin line between accountancy and organizational learning 391 Damien Mourey 21 Towards a unified theory of nonprofit governance 409 Dennis R. Young