The Third Sector is of increasing economic and political interest but has been relatively ignored by Critical Management Studies. The Sector includes charities and a range of organisations such as non-governmental, nonprofit, voluntary and community, but also those trading for a surplus but with...

Purpose – To present empirical research on the adoption of workload allocation models (WAMs) within the UK university system and relate these to the broader context of the new public management (NPM). Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on the historical sociology of the...

Innovation processes within a company are increasingly important to its strategic management. In generating a greater variety of options for innovation, knowledge management practices (KMPs) are key enablers; mapping them within a unit can pinpoint the most beneficial innovation options. Case...

Purpose – This chapter describes how radical aims for community-owned broadband became compromised by the consequences of clientelism and elite patronage as some campaigners engaged in lobbying government. Design/methodology/approach – Five years of participant observation and an...

This intriguing and valuable chapter by Frère and Reinecke raises many memories for me of my involvement in various social movement and political groups in the 1970s, and especially the vigorous debates over the precise meanings of terms like ‘libertarian’ and over the correct...

This section provides a number of useful overviews to key elements of the Third Sector whilst presenting some quite distinct and contrasting angles of current studies of the sector. The chapter by Haugh and Peredo neatly builds upon previous analyses of UK government policies towards the sector...

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...

This concise introduction to knowledge management and its current place in and implications for contemporary management theory and practice explores what knowledge management is, why it is significant, and where it is going.