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Third Sector Review

Third Sector Review is a refereed academic journal recognised by the Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations in Australia (DEEWR) and listed in Excellence in Research in Australia (ERA) listings. It addresses characteristics of the third sector or any aspect of its management, including governance, human resource management, the labour market, financial management, strategic management and managing change, community development, fund-raising, user rights, relations with government, legal issues, historical development, etc.

The journal is explicitly cross-disciplinary, with both theoretical and empirical papers invited from a range of disciplines and fields of practice. Critiques of existing theory or practice are invited. Contributions are encouraged from both practitioners and academics. There is a special ‘From the Field’ section. Contributions are invited relating to characteristics of the third sector or any aspect of its management, including governance, human-resources management, the labour market, financial management, strategic management and managing change, community development, fundraising, user rights, relations with government, legal issues, historical development, etc. It accepts papers related to the third sector issues of Australia, New Zealand and our Pacific neighbours.

Editors: 
Rosemary Leonard PhD, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Wembley, WA.
Ruth Phillips PhD, Social Work and Policy Studies Program, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW

 

Guidelines for Contributors

Papers should be written in a jargon-free, non-technical style accessible to managers, workers and board members of non-profit organisations, and to academic researchers, teachers and students from a variety of disciplines. Papers are subject to rigorous peer review, normally by two independent reviewers. A blind review process is adopted. For that reason, authors should indicate their names and affiliations on a separate page.

Authors should also include a brief abstract (100 words) and up to five keywords. Papers should be between 4000 and 6000 words in length, in 12-point Times New Roman, double-spaced and with 2.5-cm margins. Please use minimal formatting and styles; indicate headings through the use of CAPITALS, bold and italics. Authors should submit an electronic version of their paper in Microsoft Word format or Rich Text Format (RTF). If any images are used, please ensure that the full image file (jpeg or tiff) is supplied separately. Where quotations are more than 40 words, they should be indented, justified and set in italics, with the source following directly. Single quotation marks are to be used throughout the text, with double quotation marks within single when needed.

Citations: The Harvard style of referencing is used, with endnotes kept to a minimum.
Examples: (Lyons 1999); (Lyons 1999: 20); (Lyons 1998a, 1998b); (Onyx & Bullen 1998). If there are three or more authors, use the form: (McDonald et al. 1998). List multiple references in ascending chronological order: (McDonald et al. 1998; Onyx & Bullen 1998; Lyons 1999).

References: List in alphabetical order by the first author’s surname. List multiple references by the same author chronologically, the earliest first, with the author’s name repeated. Refer to the following examples, including the punctuation and capitalisation.

Book: Verba, S., Scholzman, K. & Brady, H. (1995) Voice and Equality: Civic voluntarism in American politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Book chapter: James, E. (1987) The Nonprofit Sector in Comparative Perspective. In W. W. Powell (ed.), The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook: 397–415. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Journal article: Lyons, M. (1997) Contracting for Care: What is it and what is at issue? Third Sector Review, 3 (Special Issue): 5–21.

Working paper: Onyx, J. & Bullen, P. (1998) Measuring Social Capital in Five Communities in NSW: An analysis. CACOM Working Paper No. 41. Sydney: CACOM, University of Technology, Sydney.

Editorial correspondence and manuscript submissions should be directed to: Rosemary Leonard PhD, Managing Editor, Third Sector Review, Social & Behavioural Sciences Group, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Private Bag 5, WEMBLEY, WA 6913. email: Rosemary.Leonard@csiro.au.

Third Sector Review - Featured Articles

2011,  Volume 17 No 1

• Editorial
  Melissa Edwards, University of Technology, Sydney and Ruth Phillips, University of Sydney.
• Reflections on the History of ANZTSR in Australasia
  Jenny Onyx, University of Sydney
• The Third Sector’s Role and Influence in Addressing Local Environmental Issues in Perth, Western Australia
  Subas P. Dhakal, Murdoch University
• An Australian Compact with the Third Sector: Challenges and prospects
  John R. Butcher, Australian National University
• The Role of the Third Sector in Subnational Strategic Planning
  Megan Alessandrini, University of Tasmania
• ‘You Can’t Do That!’ Researching alternate stories of community participation at end of life
  Kerrie Noonan, Rosemary Leonard and Debbie Horsfall, University of Western Sydney

2010,  Volume 16 No 3

• Editorial
  Rosemary Leonard, University of Western Sydney
• Social-policy Research in Human-service Non-government Organisations in Australia: Towards a theorisation
  Ruth Phillips, University of Sydney
• The Presence of Marketing in Victorian Non-profit Organisations
  Jan Brace-Govan, Monash University
• Staff Retention Factors in the Non-profit Sector: An examination of a West Australian community organisation
  Nurdan Colleran, David J. Gilchrist and C. Lucy Morris, University of Notre Dame.
• Honourable Intentions? Analysing the interests of private equity in the aged-care sector
  Marie dela Rama, Melissa Edwards, Bronwen Dalton and Jenny Green, University of Technology, Sydney
• Gauging the ‘Capacity to Collaborate’ within Multi-sector Ageing Networks
  Jo-Anne Everingham and Michael Cuthill, University of Queensland, Jeni Warburton, Latrobe University, and Helen Bartlett, Monash University
• From Rhetoric to Practice: The implementation of an Early Intervention Program partnership from an NGO perspective
  Lorraine McGlashan, Rosemary Leonard and Jan Mason,University of Western Sydney
• Different Types of Community Networks
  Jenny Onyx, Nina Burridge and Ellen Baker, University of Technology, Sydney

2010,  Volume 16 No 2

• Editorial
  Jo Barraket, Queensland University of Technology, and Suzanne Grant, University of Waikato.
• Mapping Social Enterprise in Australia: Conceptual debates and their operational implications
  Jo Barraket and Nicholas Collyer, Queensland University of Technology.
• Walking Towards the Light? The transformation of Jigsaw from not-for-profit organisation to social enterprise
  Suzanne Grant, University of Waikato, and Liz Kinley, Jigsaw.
• Barriers to Innovation and Investment in the Social Economy: Retrofitting for environmental sustainability in Australian community housing
  Nicola Brackertz and Michael Moran, Swinburne University of Technology.
• Lotterywest Lotteries Houses: A case study in social innovation
  Sian Supski, Swinburne University of Technology
• Business As Usual or Economic Innovation? Work, markets and growth in community and social enterprises
  Jenny Cameron, University of Newcastle.
• Doing Social Enterprise: A reflection and view from the field
  Neil Paulsen, University of Queensland, and Alex McDonald, Wise Foundation.

2010,  Volume 16 No 1

• Editorial.
  Ruth Phillips, University of Sydney
• In Memoriam: Mark Lyons, 1943–2009.
  Wendy Earles, James Cook University
• Social Inclusion Through Community Enterprise? Examining the available evidence.
  Jo Barraket, Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, Queensland University of Technology, and Verity Archer, School of International and Political Studies, Deakin University
• Taking Control of Health: Gurriny’s story of organisational change.
  Janya McCalman, James Cook University; Komla Tsey, James Cook University; Lyndon Reilly, University of Queensland; Brian Connolly, Gurriny Yealamucka Health Service; Ruth Fagan, Gurriny Yealamucka Health Service; Wendy Earles, James Cook University; and Ross Andrews, Gurriny Yealamucka Health Service
• The Facilitating Partner Model in the Communities for Children Program: Feasibility and early lessons.
  Christiane Purcal, Cathy Thomson and Catherine Spooner, University of New South Wales
• Contractualism, Workforce-development and Sustainability in the Community-services Sector in Australia.
  Ed Carson, University of South Australia, and Lorraine Kerr, Flinders University
• Corporate Volunteering: Considering multiple stakeholders.
  Louise Lee, Massey University
• A Survey of the Effects of Direct Financial Costs in Volunteering.
  Carolyn J. Cordery, Victoria University of Wellington, and Letisha Tan, Pricewaterhouse Coopers
• Towards a Fourth Sector? Australian community organisations and the market.
  Megan Alessandrini, University of Tasmania
• Civic Participation in Context: The role of social-capital production and exchange.
  Kevin M. Brown, Deakin University

2009, Volume 15 No 2

• Editorial.
  Rosemary Leonard, University of Western Sydney
• The Connections between Regional and International Research in, with and for the Third Sector: A reflection on the 2008 ANZTSR conference, ‘Demonstrate!’ .
  Brenda Gainer, President-Elect of the International Society for Third Sector Research, York University (Toronto)
• Changing Relationships: How government funding models impact relationships between organisations.
  Jo Baulderstone, Flinders University, and Wendy Earles, James Cook University
• Perceptions of Accountability in Australian Faith-Based Social-Welfare Organisations.
  Ken Crofts, Charles Sturt University
• Not Just a Tool: The responses of non-profit leaders to ‘service-delivery’ relationships with governments.
  Alison Oakleigh, Australian National University
• Critical Third-sector Research: Transforming the hegemonic two-step.
  Barbara L’Huillier and Maria Humphries, University of Waikato
• Silos of Helplessness: A cautionary tale about introducing social-media (web 2.0) applications in the community sector.
  Suzanne Grant, University of Waikato
• ‘We Will Always Be Looking for People’: Third-sector workforce dilemmas.
  Wendy Earles and Robyn Lynn, James Cook University
• Perceptions of ‘Good Governance’ in New Zealand Non-Profit Organisations.
  Ljiljana Erakovic, University of Auckland Business School, and Judith McMorland, University of Auckland Business School and CO-LEARNZ Ltd
• Non-profit Arts-festival Management in Jakarta and Perth: A tale of two social enterprises.
  Sharon Eng, Jakarta International School, and Stephen Boyle, University of South Australia

2009, Volume 15 No 1

• Editorial
  Wendy Earles, James Cook University .
• Volunteers: Valuable but invisible to accountants?
  Gwynn Narraway, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, and Carolyn Cordery, Victoria University of Wellington.
• The Economics of Charity: Who cares?
  Lucy Morris, University of Notre Dame Australia.
• Rewards in a Non-profit Organisation: A case study
  Ron Kluvers, Swinburne University of Technology, and John Tippet, Victoria University.
• Social Change Grant-making: A failure of innovation?
  Diana Leat, Queensland University of Technology.
• Regulating Third Sector Organisations: The views of incorporated associations in NSW
  Andrew Passey, Department for Communities and Local Government (UK), and Mark Lyons, University of Technology, Sydney.
• Managing Dualities in a Collaborative Non-profit Network
  Ellen Baker, Melanie Kan and Jenny Onyx, University of Technology, Sydney, and Stephen Teo, University of Western Sydney.

From the Field

• Crisis, Rescue and Transformation: A case study of an Australian voluntary association
  Stella Minahan, Deakin University, and Loretta Inglis, Monash University