Cases, Configurations, Critiques and Contributions: Editorial Introduction

Abstract

Purpose – This chapter introduces the contents of the volume and provides an editorial overview of the origins of the concept of the Third Sector, methodologies employed by contributors, how contributions address different organizational forms, issues of critique within the volume, and the benefits of the contributions for researchers and practitioners within the Third Sector, and within Critical Management Studies.

Methodology/approach – Editorial overview and synthesis.

Research implications – The contents of the volume significantly advance critical perspectives upon the Third Sector.

Social implications – The contents of the volume enable improved critical reflection for those working within the Third Sector.

Originality/value of chapter – This editorial introduction presents the first broad-ranging synthesis of (a) contemporary issues within the Third Sector, Social Economy and Civil Society and (b) Critical Management Studies.

Citation

Hull, R., Gibbon, J., Branzei, O. and Haugh, H. (2011), "Cases, Configurations, Critiques and Contributions: Editorial Introduction", Hull, R., Gibbon, J., Branzei, O. and Haugh, H. (Ed.) The Third Sector (Dialogues in Critical Management Studies, Vol. 1), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. xiii-xxxv. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2046-6072(2011)0000001004