This research demonstrates how sustained charity fraud is supported when organisations do not develop strong accountability links to salient stakeholders. Whilst increased regulation is one response to reduce charity fraud and to increase organisational accountability, regulators seldom...

Internationally, there has been a steady increase in the number of countries instigating charity regulation. While the Charity Commission for England and Wales was established by the Charitable Trusts Acts of 1853, since 2005 the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Charity Commission for...

This paper examines the success and failure of the once pre-eminent New Zealand charity, the Council for the Organisation of Relief Services Overseas (CORSO). While delivering aid for government in its early years was a factor in its success, so too was its broad membership base. Voluntary...