A Comparative Research on Third Sector Governance in Asia (Part 2) : Its Organizational Survey Protocol

Abstract: A comparative research work was on ‘Asia's Third Sector: Governance for Accountability and Performance' with the involvement of at least two dozen researchers in six participating countries. It resulted in a book (Comparative Third Sector Governance in Asia, Springer, 2008) comprising eleven comparative chapters, and six country chapters. A comprehensive guide was prepared for the research partners. This is a two-part discussion of the Guide and the research methodology. The first part of the method (‘A Comparative Research on Third Sector Governance in Asia (Part 1): Its Qualitative Research Method', available on SSRN) discusses the literature search, content analyses, and the survey of ‘legal experts' and ‘key informants'. That part also includes a project overview and context; research practicalities; and practical lessons learned. This part, highlights the organizational data collection protocol. The ‘protocol' is added at the end of this note so any interested researcher may use it to create new knowledge about the governance of the third sector organizations in any other country to compare it to the original analyses as available in the book (Samiul Hasan and Jenny Onyx, eds. Comparative Third Sector Governance in Asia, Springer, 2008)