Laura Nirello, Lionel Prouteau

The French Nonprofit Sector: A Literature Review

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Produktbeschreibung

This article deals with the literature on the French nonprofit sector (NPS). A preliminary part is devoted to presenting and discussing the characteristics that shape the approaches to this sector in France. In the second part, the article outlines some landmarks in the history of the French NPS. This literature review also focuses on empirical studies of the sector, placing a particular emphasis on the more recent ones. This review ends with the analysis of the challenges that NPS faces in a context characterized by the increasing constraints on public funding, changes in the nature of such funding with a substitution of contracts for subsidies, an increased competition among NPOs as well as between NPOs and for-profit enterprises.

Produktdetails

• Brill Research Perspectives in Nr.13
• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 94
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789004382909
• ISBN-10: 9004382909
• Artikelnr.: 53168103

Autorenporträt

Laura Nirello is postdoctoral researcher at Centre Lillois d'Etudes et de Recherches Sociologiques et Economiques--CLERSE (Lille Sociological and Economic Studies and Research Centre) and at the Direction de la Recherche, des Etudes, de l'Evaluation et des Statistiques--DREES (Directorate of Research, Studies, Evaluation, and Statistics), a department of the French Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. Email: [e-mail] Lionel Prouteau is Emeritus Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Nantes. He is member of the Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes-Atlantique--LEMNA (Nantes-Atlantique Economics and Management Research Laboratory). Email: [e-mail]