Research Handbook on Nonprofit Governance

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

‘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.’

• Contents:Preface xviiiList of abbreviations xxii1 Deepening and broadening the field: introduction to ResearchHandbook on Nonprofit Governance 1Gemma Donnelly-Cox, Michael Meyer and Filip WijkströmPART I FUNDAMENTALS OF NONPROFIT GOVERNANCE2 Normative understandings of nonprofit governance: everydaydiscourses and research perspectives 27Florentine Maier and Michael Meyer3 Accountability and transparency: cornerstones of civil societygovernance 46Jurgen Willems4 Nonprofit governance and external environments 71Wolfgang Bielefeld and Fredrik O. Andersson5 Who owns your nonprofit? A reconceptualization of nonprofitownership 98Stephanie A. Koolen-Maas6 Regulatory governance of nonprofit organizations: legalframeworks and voluntary self-regulation 116Stefan Toepler and Helmut K. AnheierPART II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS7 Neoinstitutional theory and nonprofit governance research 141Renate E. Meyer, Dennis Jancsary and Markus A. Höllerer8 Actorhood as governance in neoliberal world culture 165Patricia Bromley9 Agents and stewards in nonprofit governance 186Marc Jegers10 Who really governs? Nonprofit governance, stakeholdertheory and the dominant coalition perspective 196Fredrik O. Andersson and David O. Renz11 How nonprofit governance studies can be enriched by thecommons framework: towards a cross-fertilization agenda of research 220Philippe Eynaud and Jean-Louis LavillePART III GOVERNANCE FOR SPECIFIC TYPES OFNONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS12 The governance of foundations 236Georg von Schnurbein13 Democratic governance in membership-based organizations 258Johan Hvenmark and Torbjörn Einarsson14 Gate-keeping nonprofit governance: evaluative criteria andtheir rankings in nomination committee selection processes 279Cecilia Stenling, Josef Fahlén, Anna-Maria Strittmatter and EivindÅ. Skille15 International nongovernmental organization governance:brokering between developed countries and the developing world 294Urs Jäger and José Pablo Valverde16 Hybrid organizations as sites for reimagining organizationalgovernance 311Johanna Mair and Miriam WolfPART IV FUTURE CHALLENGES17 Nonprofit organizations in public governance 327Annette Zimmer and Steven Rathgeb Smith18 Multilevel governance and the role of civil societyorganizations in the European Union system 352Carlo Ruzza19 The marketization of the third sector? Trends, impacts andimplications 371Michael J. Roy, Angela M. Eikenberry and Simon Teasdale20 Twists and turns of the practice of accountability in thenonprofit sector: the thin line between accountancy andorganizational learning 391Damien Mourey21 Towards a unified theory of nonprofit governance 409Dennis R. YoungIndex