Paper Archive

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Papers from the 2009 meeting (Malta)

Victor Pestoff & Taco Brandsen
Public governance and the third sector: opportunities for co-production and innovation?   Download

Markku Kiviniemi
Assessing Democracy in Local Governance Networks innovation?   Download

Mihaly Hogye
Some Reflections on Nonprofit Finance Theory – Case of Co-production   Download

Willem Trommel & Judith van der Veer
Governance as the hidden essence of welfare state reform: the case of social support in the Netherlands   Download

Fabio Monteduro, Alessandro Hinna, Roberto Ferrari
Do non-profit boards matter for innovation?   Download

Alexander Murdock, Fergus Lyon, Ash Amin, Bob Doherty
Researching Social Enterprise: The nature, focus and planned work of the Social Enterprise ESRC Cluster in the UK   Download

David Porter
Specific Challenges in Coordinating and Administering the Coproduction of Education Services   Download

Ichiro Tsukamoto
The potential and limitation of “co-production” under nonprofit-government partnerships in Japan   Download

Jan Wieles, Claudia Noort-Verhoeff, Marie-Anne van de Griek, Cor van Montfort
Changes in financial relationships between central government and private sector partners   Download

Bram Verschuere & Joris De Corte
Mapping the role of nonprofits in the public domain and the effects for public service delivery and policy design: a research strategy   Download

Gyorgy Jenei
Innovation in CSO- government: Partnerships for democratisation and for increasing economic competiveness: Hungarian experiences   Download

Eelco van Hout
Innovative effects of hybrid networks and organisations   Download

Kerry Brown, Robyn Keast, Jennifer Waterhouse, Ben Murphy
Social Innovation to Solve Homelessness: Wicked Solutions for Wicked Problems   Download

Papers from the 2008 meeting (Rotterdam)

Taco Brandsen & Philip Karré
Hybrid Organizations: the State of the Art in Public Administration Research   Download

Stephen Osborne & Celine Chew
The innovative capacity of voluntary organizations: a key element of co-production?   Download

Victor Pestoff
Civicness and co-production and the provision of social services in Sweden   Download

Eelko den Breejen, Hester van de Bovenkamp & Kim Putters
Third sector changes: the case of patient organizations in the Netherlands   Download

Angel Saz-Carranza
How nonprofit advocacy inter-organizational networks cooperate with and confront state actors: cases from the immigrant rights movement in the US   Download

Cristina Fusetti
The dilemma of multi-stakeholders sport associations: organizational design and its constraints   Download

Ricardo Correa Gomes
Employing the balanced scorecard as a performance appraisal tool for third sector organizations: the case of the arthur bernardes foundation – Brazil   Download

Christoph Golbeck
Non-profit organisations & social service provision: chances for new governance arrangements in the third sector?   Download

Bram Verschuere & Diederik Vancoppenolle
Prevalence of private non-profit welfare service providers in Flemish local governments: a typology and policy implications   Download

Gyorgy Jenei
A Post-Accession Crisis? Public Sector Modernisation and the Role of CSO’s in Hungary   Download

Papers from the 2007 meeting (Madrid)

Victor Pestoff
Democratic Governance: Co-Production, the Third Sector and Citizen Participation in the Provision of Welfare Services  Download

Magdalena Huncova
Czech case study on co-production in the delivery of public good services   Download

Taco Brandsen, Liesbeth van den Munckhof & Mirjan Oude Vrielink
The dynamics of co-management: state - nonprofit partnerships across policy fields  Download

Simone Baglioni
Primary education and sport: a successful experience of public service co-production. The case of Parma - Italy  Download

Isabel Vidal
The diversity of co-management in the provision of non-compulsory educational services to children between the ages of zero and six in Spain  Download
Early Childhood Education in Spain  Download

Cristina Fusetti & Margaret Groeneveld
French sport federations: models of co-production?  Download

Stephen Osborne & Celine Chew
The innovative capacity of voluntary organizations: a key element of co-production?/i>  Download

Francesco Manfredi & Mirella Maffei
Co-governance and co-production: The public-private co-enterprise as a market-oriented management system for the provision of public services  Download

Olga Zygoura
The regulation of the third sector organizations in the framework of co-production in the delivery of public services and the constitutional guarantees of the autonomy of third sector organizations  Download

Eelco van Hout & Kim Putters
Governance of local third sector services  Download

Ichiro Tsukamoto & Mariko Nishimura
The state and the strategic partnerships of local intermediary organizations in Japan : between contractual relationships and the co-governance
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Sunhyuk Kim & Jeongwon Kim
Emerging Patterns of Co-Production in South Korea: Strengthening Democracy and Constructing (Not Complementing) a Welfare State  Download

Lyubov Palyvoda:
Mechanisms of Civil Society Involvement into Programming, Implementation and Monitoring of the EU Aid Programs in Ukraine  Download


Papers from the 2006 meeting (Milan)

Taco Brandsen & Eelco van Hout
Co-management in public service provision: the organisational effects  Download

Lev Jakobson
The Third sector and the state in Russia: halfway from opposition to partnership  Download

Önder Kutlu
The third sector as a way of integrating Turkey  Download

Eva Kuti & Gyorgy Jenei
Civil society building, civil society organisation and service provision in the Hungarian local governments  Download

Lyubov Palyvoda
Factors that influence the ability of Ukrainian charity organizations and foundations in public service delivery  Download

Victor Pestoff
Democratizing medical care - the Japanese experience  Download

Markku Kiviniemi
Differentiation within the third sector: elaboration of dimensions and types  Download

Jon Nyhlen
The relevance of pluralism and corporatism in Swedish local politics in a third sector perspective  Download

Mark Rix
Performance contracts, corporate governance and the third sector: the case of the NSW community legal sector  Download

Monika Molnar
The accountability movement and its implications for the governance practices of the Hungarian third sector  Download

Celine Chew & Stephen Osborne
Identifying the factors that influence positioning strategies in UK voluntary non-profit organizations that provide public services: towards an integrating model  Download

Margaret Groeneveld, Simone Baglioni, Cristina Fusetti, Dino Numerato, Thomas Persson
Sport and social capital in the European Union  Download

Elvind Sto & Pål Strandbakken
Bottom-up initiatives from creative communities - A third sector alternative to market and state solutions?  Download


Papers from the 2005 meeting (Bern)

Stephen Osborne (Aston University), Gyorgy Jenei (Corvinus University Budapest) and Gergely Fabian (University of Debrecen)
'Whispering at the back door'? The voluntary and community sector and public policy implementation in post-accession Hungary  Download

Johan Vamstad (Mid Sweden University)
What is wrong with the Swedish welfare state and why?-Shifting focus from national economy to local democracy in the research on the future of the Swedish welfare state  Download

Andreas Schulz
Social Capital and Networking. Impact on the GIVE and TAKE of Social Capital by a network orientated governance between state and Social Enterprises   Download

Roger Courtney, Gordon Marnoch and Arthur Williamson (University of Ulster)
The adoption of strategic management by third sector organizations: findings from a census of third sector organizations in Northern Ireland and further behavioural questions  Download

Taco Brandsen, Teresa Cardoso Ribeiro, Eelco van Hout, Kim Putters (Tilburg University)
Hybridity: a distinct identity (you cannot fly on one wing only)  Download

Teresa Cardoso Ribeiro (Tilburg University) and Philip Karré (Netherlands Institute of Public Administration)
The 'social profit' of hybrid service provision/delivery  Download

Lyubov Palyvoda (Rutgers -New Jersey State University)
The roles of the Ukrainian charity organizations and foundations in public service delivery  Download

Alex Murdock (London South Bank University) and Arthur Williamson (Ulster University)
The Voluntary Sector Compacts and localism in the UK: third sector service and co-producer implications of variations between England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales  Download

Taco Brandsen (Tilburg University), Laurent Fraisse (CRIDA) and Jeremy Kendall (London School of Economics)
The internal market, services of general interest and the third sector   Download

Victor Pestoff (Mid Sweden University)
Hurdles to the third sector and the democratization of the welfare state  Download