CHALLENGES OF MANAGING THE THIRD SECTOR

THE 5TH WORKSHOP ON THE CHALLENGES OF MANAGING THE THIRD SECTOR

The purpose of the workshop 'The challenges of managing the third sector' is to present and discuss in a stimulating environment high quality research papers on all relevant aspects of managing small and large non profit organisations. Both theoretical and empirical papers, including excellent case studies and papers written by senior managers/ policymakers/ practitioners, will be welcomed.

Suggestions for specific domains to be dealt with are :
· policy constraints on npo management
· funding constraints on npo management
· ethical issues versus commercialisation and commodification
· the introduction of private sector managerial techniques in npos
· the role of sponsors
· problems of fundraising
· functional management of npos : accounting, finance, marketing, human resources
· strategy and npo objectives
· npo management in transition economies
· inter-disciplinary approaches to the challenges of the Third Sector

Those who are interested in presenting a full paper should submit it before April 15, 2005.