Voluntas Symposium: Comments on Salamon and Sokolowski's Re-conceptualization of the Third Sector

• Published in: Voluntas (Manchester, England) Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 1546 - 1561
• Main Authors: Defourny, Jacques, Grønbjerg, Kirsten, Meijs, Lucas, Nyssens, Marthe, Yamauchi, Naoto
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer 01.08.2016; Springer US; Springer Nature B.V; Springer Science & Business Media B.V
• Subjects: Business; Business & economic sciences; Civil society; Cooperatives; Corporations; Distribution of profits; Economic models; Economic sectors; Economie sociale; Netherlands; Non-profit organizations; Nonprofit organizations; Original Paper; Political Science; Retained earnings; Sciences économiques & de gestion; Social economics; Social enterprises; Social entrepreneurship; Social Policy; Social Sciences; Socioeconomics; Studies; Volunteerism; Volunteers; Netherlands; Civil society; Third sector; Social enterprise; Social economy

With their "Beyond Nonprofits: Re-conceptualizing the Third Sector", Salamon and Sokolowski have made an important contribution to the ongoing debate on how to define the third sector. This Voluntas symposium brings together the comments of five leading scholars both supportive and critica...