Valuing the project: a knowledge-action response to network governance in collaborative research

The delegation of research to self-directed networks is a relatively new strategy to focus academic endeavour on public priorities. Networks involve policy-makers, knowledge producers and knowledge users in unfamiliar governance and management relationships. Here we reflect, as practitioners, on research networks as complex governance systems and on their projects as knowledge-action systems designed to deliver public value. Projects represent the currency in which delegated research is issued, but their conversion into monetary grants and awards diverts attention from their potential as boundary organizations or communities of practice in the production of societal knowledge and understanding. Recognizing and supporting projects as scalable components of enduring knowledge-action systems, rather than as transient instances of research funding, is key to sustaining delivery of public value under conditions of network governance.     

Non‐profit vulnerability: An exploratory study

This mixed‐method study explores the symptoms and potential causes of non‐profit vulnerability within the Australian context. Following two focus groups with CEOs and Chairs of non‐profit organizations, an online survey was developed, pilot tested and distributed to non‐profit CEOs. Our findings suggest three symptoms that might be particularly useful in identifying non‐profit vulnerability: a substantial increase in unit costs/delivery hours; a substantial increase in the proportion of administration to program expenses; and a reduced ability to pursue the organization's mission. The results also suggest various potential causes of non‐profit vulnerability; in particular, Board inadequacies; External environmental threats; Project management issues; and Funding constraints.     

The Organizational Embeddedness of Social Capital: A Comparative Case Study of Two Voluntary Organizations

Social capital is a popular, but contested concept. It draws attention to the way in which social relations and constructed forms of social organization can produce outcomes on individual and collective levels. However, it is often founded on individualistic, rational-choice models of human behavior that neglect its embeddedness. I explore the embeddedness of social capital through a comparative case study of two voluntary sport organizations in the UK. Through close analysis of in-depth interviews and longitudinal observation, I look at the processes of social capital development and the way socio-organizational context and identity shape these processes.     

Financial and Economic Management in Autonomized Dutch Public Organizations

Alongside with the introduction of New Public Management, many governmental organizations in the Netherlands were autonomized. The aim of this paper is to analyze the changes in financial and economic management that accompanied these autonomizations. Case research was carried out in six public organizations. The financial management of these organizations improved somewhat after the autonomization. However, there were hardly any real changes in the economic management. The paper gives an overview of the changes in financial and economic management. It also discusses what factors might have prevented the realization of the planned changes in the (financial and) economic management.     

国外工业转型的研究进展

作为全球环境人类行为计划（ＩＨＤＰ）６ 个首要研究课题之一的工业转型（Ｉｎｄｕｓｔｒｉａｌ Ｔｒａｎｓｆｏｒｍａｔｉｏｎ） 的提出基本体现了国际上对如何发展工业才能减少其环境影响的思想,本文重点介绍了目前国外工业转型（ＩＴ） 所涉及到的研究领域及方法,旨在为推进我国更多地从生态环境安全的角度发展工业提供一个思路。     

从资本保全角度看民间非营利组织会计制度中的改革

非营利组织的资产保全重点是净资产的保全,《民间非营利组织会计制度》对净资产保全的规定有所欠缺,影响了非营利民间组织的发展。据此,笔者针对如何对其进行改革的问题,提出了个人意见。     

浅析非营利组织财务管理

作为现代社会的社会组织三大类型之一,非营利组织在教科文、医疗卫生、慈善救济等领域为社会公益提供着服务。近年来,非营利组织激剧增长,成为与人们生活休戚相关的社会力量。非营利组织发展成熟的过程中,财务管理需求随机构内外压力增加而增大,其水平和效果直接影响公共资金的使用效益、国家的经济和社会发展水平。财务管理已成为非营利组织可持续发展的必要条件。非营利组织财务管理也成为了需要研究的新领域。本文试图对非营利组织财务管理面临的问题做些探讨并提出相应对策。     

基于中间组织协调视角的母子公司财务控制研究

中间组织内部的管理协调机制是单一企业"权威"与市场个体间"非权威"因素的混合.作为一种中间组织,母子公司内部财务控制关系的基础形式是权威性财务控制,具体表现为一系列高度规则化与运行层级化的财务制度、财务业务程序和财务技术规范.但科层权威性财务控制不能满足母子公司作为中间组织内部财务关系协调的要求,为达到合理的财务控制效果,需要母子公司间的信任机制、财务文化以及社会控制机制等非权威性财务控制来改进权威性财务控制.我国大量母子公司逆向成长的特殊性也决定了将发展非权威性财务控制方法作为财务工作的重心.     

Social cooperatives,social welfare associations and social networks

We use an original data-set to study how participation in two types of non-profit organizations – i.e. social welfare associations and social cooperatives – affects individual social capital, understood as a network of cooperative relationships. Participation in both the types of organization allows members to start new social relations. However, social welfare associations seem to play a significantly greater role in the development of volunteers’ social capital, favouring the creation of weak ties that are used to exchange information and advice, and offering the opportunity to establish stronger ties entailing concrete mutual support. Within social cooperatives, workers appear to develop their individual social capital to a greater extent than volunteers. Our results suggest that the composition of the workforce, the depth of members’ involvement in the organization’s activities and the human resources strategies adopted by the management influence the creation of cooperative relations through on-the-job interactions.     

关于社区民间组织建设的实践与思考——以宁波市江东区社区民间组织为案例

随着城市“单位人“向“社会人”的转变,社区逐渐成为社会管理的最基本单位。加强城市基层管理,推进社区建设,已成为构建和谐社会的重要内容。社区民间组织已成为构建和谐社区的重要力量。笔者通过对宁波市江东区社区民间组织的特点、数量、类型和社区民间组织在社区发展中发挥作用、当前存在的问题进行了调研、分析,并对如何加强社区民间组织发展提出了建议。