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Sub-theme 12:

Civil Society Organizations: Pirates, Privateers, Pioneers and Protectors

 

Convenors:

Michael Meyer
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Austria)
michael.meyer@wu-wien.ac.at

Gemma Donnelly-Cox
Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
gdnnllyc@tcd.ie

Filip Wijkström
Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden)
filip.wijkstrom@hhs.se


 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30
Contemplating a Life at Sea: HR Issues and Civil Society Organizations

Chair: Michael Meyer

Gemma Donnelly-Cox, Michael Meyer and Filip Wijkström
Welcome and general introduction

Scott A. Hurell, Chris Warhurst and Dennis Nickson
Swashbuckling saviours? Graduate recruitment in the voluntary sector

Ian Cunningham
HR management in UK CSOs in the era of contracting

Anahid Aghamanoukjan, Doris Ruth Eikhof, Johannes Leitner and Martin Steinbereithner
Courtier or pirate, knighted or beheaded? The various shades of success aspirations of CSO managers
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Navigating Stormy Seas: Multiple Perspectives on CSOs
Interactive Paper Session

Chair: Filip Wijkström

Stefanie Bixa, Reinhard Millner and Guido Strunk
Membership and political engagement – Civil society as school of democracy or Biedermeier?

Philippe Eynaud
Joining, signing up and hacking for good

Stefan Einarsson
The return of social work within the IOGT-NTO family
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30
Who Profits? Privateering CSOs at the Boundaries of Civil Society

Chair: Gemma Donnelly-Cox

Kai Hockerts
Social entrepreneurship: Between philanthropy and profiteering

Laurence Romani and Lin Lerpold
CSOs for the humanity salvation. The case of microfinance for poverty alleviation

Arno Kourula and Eija Mustonen
Corporate responsibility – A Finnish civil society perspective
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30
Steering the Ship: CSO Governance Issues

Chair: Michael Meyer

Andreas Schröer
Side effects of going to scale – Governance challenges for nonprofit organizations

Ingo Bode
Internal or external governance? The root of good and bad practice in German nonprofit care homes

Axel Haunschild and Volker Spelthann
Ruling the game: Associations and League Organization in German (semi-)professional football
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45
Pioneering Partnership and Partition Initiatives

Chair: Gemma Donnelly-Cox

Marja Spierenburg and Harry Wels
Power in partnering with the private sector: Environmental organisations and the private sector in nature conservation in Southern Africa

Marta Reuter
Pirates or protectors in the European waters? Two eurosceptic parties and EU enlargement

Johannes Moes
Civil society organizations: Navigating in a changing regime of accountability
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30
The Dominion of NGOs: Queries, Challenges, Critical Perspectives

Chair: Filip Wijkström

Nidhi Srinivas
Against NGOs: A critical management perspective

Gabriela de Brelàz and Mário Aquino Alves
Civil society organizations, advocacy and lobbying: Privateers or pirates? A comparative study of different institutional environments

Ishani Chandrasekara
Organizational accounts and the other: Discovering plurality in the non-governmental sector
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45
Sailing into the Sunset: Some Final Observations on CSOs

Chairs: Gemma Donnelly-Cox, Michael Meyer and Filip Wijkström

Johannes Leitner, Florentine Maier and Reinhard Millner
Does the lack of slack kick pioneering acts? Organizational slack and its impact on innovation in CSOs

Juliane Riese
The Tale of David the Hippie Pirate, Ash Lad the Whaler, and the Little Researcher

Gemma Donnelly-Cox and Michael Meyer
Drawing the themes together: CSOs and organisation studies

 

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