Program #9
December 21 , 2006
Issues in Nonprofit Research
Presenters:
Prof Helmut Anheier, Director of the Centre for Civil Society at UCLA’s School of Public Policy and Social Research
Prof Myles McGregor-Lowndes, Director, The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, QUT
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For More Information
- Prof Anheier's Proposed Research Matrix
Published in Anheier, H.K. (2005) Nonprofit Organizations: Theory, management, policy. Routledge. Page 116. - Publications mentioned in Podcast 9
- Lyons, Mark (2001). Third Sector. The contribution of nonprofit and cooperative enterprises in Australia. Crows Nest, Australia, Allen & Unwin.
- Industry Commission (1995). Charitable Organizations in Australia Report no. 45 (Melbourne: The Industry Commission).
[Note: The Industry Commission is now called The Productivity Commission] - Report of the Inquiry into the Definition of Charities and Related Organisations, June 2001
- Powell, Walter and Steinberg, Richard (2006) The Non-Profit Sector - A Research Handbook, 2nd ed. Yale University Press, New Haven & London.
The book is divided into the following six sections: - History and Scope of the Nonprofit Sector
- Nonprofits and the Marketplace
- Nonprofit and Polity
- Key Activities in the Nonprofit Sector
- Who Participates in the Nonprofit Sector and Why?
- Mission and Governance
- 2006 Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference Papers by CPNS Staff
- Nicholson, Gavin and Newton, Cameron (2006) Best paper in Ethics and Corporate Governance“An empirical investigation of perceptions of board roles among the corporate elite”.
- Newton, Cameron (2006) Best Paper in Organisational Behaviour“Implications for the buffering role of participative control in the stress-strain relationship” - available through eprints.qut.edu.au
- CPNS Workshop on Surveying Nonprofit Organisations: Principles, Peculiarities, and Practices- Access audio and video presentations from this workshop held in Brisbane, November 2004.
- CPNS Nonprofit Research Resources
- Useful Links Page.
Our Useful Links page is designed to assist the community, academic researchers and students in accessing the latest available information and resources regarding the nonprofit sector.
As there are more than 200 links on this page, we recommend that you use the Page Index to begin your search. - What We Research Pages
Browse the left hand navigation bar for resources related to current CPNS research projects including Charity Definition, Chart of Accounts, Family Foundations and Public Liability.
| Basic Question | Organization | Field/industry | Economy/country |
Why? |
Why is this organization nonprofit rather than forprofit or government? |
Why do we find specific compositions of nonprofit, forprofit, government firms in fields/industries? |
Why do we find variations in the size and structure of the nonprofit sector cross-nationally? |
How? |
How does this organization operate? How does it compare to other equivalent organizations? |
How do nonprofit organizations behave relative to other forms in the same field or industry? |
How does the nonprofit sector operate and what role does it play relative to other sectors? |
So what? |
What is the contribution of this organization relative to other forms? |
What is the relative contribution of nonprofit organizations in this field relative to other forms? |
What does the nonprofit sector contribute relative to other sectors? |
Presenters
Prof Helmut Anheier
CPNS Visiting Academic
Director, Center for Civil Society, UCLA
Dr Helmut K. Anheier (Ph.D., Yale).is full professor at UCLA’s School of Public Policy and Social Research, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. At UCLA he directs the Center for Civil Society, and founded and directed a similar center at LSE from 1998 to 2002. Prior to this he was a Reader of Social Policy at LSE, Senior Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies, Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, and a Social Affairs Officer at the United Nations. He has also held research appointments at Yale University, the University of Cologne, and the Science Center in Berlin. Prof Anheier’s work has focused on civil society, the nonprofit sector, philanthropy, organizational studies, policy analysis and comparative methodology. He is a founding editor of Voluntas, and author of over 250 publications in several languages including the book co-authored with Dr Diana Leat "Creative Philanthropy: Toward a Philanthropy for the 21st century.”
Prof Myles McGregor-Lowndes OAM
Director, The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, QUT
Myles has advised and held board positions in a large variety of nonprofit organisations over a period of 25 years. He is a consultant to McCullough Robertson Lawyers engaged solely in high level legal and taxation advice to large national and international nonprofit organisations. He is also a member of the ATO Charities Consultative Committee on the introduction of the New Tax System and advisor to the ATO on nonprofit taxation training and education materials.
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