Keyword

third sector

Description: The third sector is the nonprofit and voluntary part of an economy, distinct from government institutions and for-profit businesses.

Primary topic: Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (42%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q1063076

OpenAlex ID: keywords/third-sector

The Nonprofit sector: a research handbook

2007 · Powell, Walter W., Steinberg, Richard · Choice Reviews Online · 2,630

The Nonprofit Economy

1988 · Burton A. Weisbrod · Harvard University Press eBooks · 1,417

The Emergence of Social Enterprise

2001 · Routledge eBooks · 1,123

Global civil society: dimensions of the nonprofit sector

1999 · Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski · 1,066

Social Origins of Civil Society: Explaining the Nonprofit Sector Cross-Nationally

1998 · Lester M. Salamon, Helmut K. Anheier · VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations · 1,026

The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship 1 , 2

2018 · J. Gregory Dees · Routledge eBooks · 1,019

How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas

2004 · David Bornstein · 995

Strategic Performance Measurement and Management in Nonprofit Organizations

2001 · Robert S. Kaplan · Nonprofit Management and Leadership · 947

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A Theory of Fields

2012 · Neil Fligstein, Doug McAdam · 905

Social entrepreneurship

2007 · Eleanor Shaw, Sara Carter · Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development · 793

The State of Nonprofit America

2012 · Lester M. Salamon · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 789

Collaborative Innovation: A Viable Alternative to Market Competition and Organizational Entrepreneurship

2013 · Jean Hartley, Eva Sørensen, et al. · Public Administration Review · 769

Defining the nonprofit sector: a cross-national analysis

1997 · Choice Reviews Online · 747

Alternative Models of Government-Nonprofit Sector Relations: Theoretical and International Perspectives

2000 · Dennis R. Young · Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly · 673

Co-production, the third sector and the delivery of public services

2006 · Taco Brandsen, Victor Pestoff · Public Management Review · 665

Serious leisure: a perspective for our time

2007 · Choice Reviews Online · 650

The Sociology Of Nonprofit Organizations And Sectors

1990 · Paul J. DiMaggio, Helmut K. Anheier · Annual Review of Sociology · 607

Nonprofit Organizations: Theory, Management, Policy

2005 · Helmut K. Anheier · 591

In search of the non-profit sector. I: The question of definitions

1992 · Lester M. Salamon, Helmut K. Anheier · VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations · 585

O mundo dos bens: para uma antropologia do consumo

2005 · Sérgio Robert de Sant'Anna · Revista de Administração Contemporânea · 571

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The Rise of the Nonprofit Sector

1994 · Lester M. Salamon · Foreign Affairs · 561

New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

2013 · Routledge eBooks · 559

From spare change to real change. The social sector as beta site for business innovation.

1999 · R M Kanter · PubMed · 545

Social Entrepreneurship

2006 · 527

Strategic planning : what every manager must know

1979 · George Steiner · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 510

Works count: 31,810

Citation count: 132,500