This paper seeks to establish whether the structural-operational definition of the sector, used by the John Hopkins Comparative Non-profit Sector Project (JHCNSP), is universal in its applicability. Historical case studies of primary health care and social housing provision in nineteenth-century England demonstrate that the definition cannot accommodate the institutional diversity of earlier periods and does not produce meaningful sectoral distinctions. The structural-operational definition rules out of the sector a significant proportion of non-statutory, non-profit maximising providers. In particular, it excludes the mutual aid organisations which are widely recognised as important for the development of civil society and which have histo...
Non-profit or third sector is a very diverse sector and its socio-economic importance is rising in m...
Several decades ago a chapter giving a legal overview of the not-for-profit sector might have been r...
In this chapter, we look at non-profits and civil society as a transit zone for solidarity acts, soc...
In this paper we argue that the lack of attention to the third sector historically is primarily a re...
The Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project is a systematic effort to analyze the scope, ...
This chapter reviews the limited research on organisational typologies in countries with similar lib...
This Working Paper discusses Ireland and its voluntary, or non-profit, sector. Irish non-profit orga...
As a result in part of the way non-profit institutions are defined and treated in the United Nations...
In this chapter we illustrate how the public sector might fail in narrowing spatial inequalities, an...
The growth of the non-profit, voluntary or third sector has been widely recognized throughout the wo...
Purpose – Non-profit sector management represent a research topic particularly discussed. This work ...
Basic theories and literature review The Non-Profit phenomenon is a topic conceptually much debated...
This paper tries to shed light on the economics of non-profit firms. It presents a limited manageria...
This is one in a series of Working Papers produced by The Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Secto...
Civil society is one of the most widely used—and widely maligned—concepts in development studies. In...
Non-profit or third sector is a very diverse sector and its socio-economic importance is rising in m...
Several decades ago a chapter giving a legal overview of the not-for-profit sector might have been r...
In this chapter, we look at non-profits and civil society as a transit zone for solidarity acts, soc...
In this paper we argue that the lack of attention to the third sector historically is primarily a re...
The Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project is a systematic effort to analyze the scope, ...
This chapter reviews the limited research on organisational typologies in countries with similar lib...
This Working Paper discusses Ireland and its voluntary, or non-profit, sector. Irish non-profit orga...
As a result in part of the way non-profit institutions are defined and treated in the United Nations...
In this chapter we illustrate how the public sector might fail in narrowing spatial inequalities, an...
The growth of the non-profit, voluntary or third sector has been widely recognized throughout the wo...
Purpose – Non-profit sector management represent a research topic particularly discussed. This work ...
Basic theories and literature review The Non-Profit phenomenon is a topic conceptually much debated...
This paper tries to shed light on the economics of non-profit firms. It presents a limited manageria...
This is one in a series of Working Papers produced by The Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Secto...
Civil society is one of the most widely used—and widely maligned—concepts in development studies. In...
Non-profit or third sector is a very diverse sector and its socio-economic importance is rising in m...
Several decades ago a chapter giving a legal overview of the not-for-profit sector might have been r...
In this chapter, we look at non-profits and civil society as a transit zone for solidarity acts, soc...