The third sector comprises charities, social enterprises, and voluntary groups supporting the community at a local level. study focused on management practices of TSOs. In all, total number Third Sector Organizations selected for from Kolar, Chikkaballapur, Tumkur districts was 30. sample consists different types TSOs which include Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), Self-Help Groups (SHGs) ...

This paper will investigate the effects of performance contracts on the governance of third sector organisations to which governments have outsourced responsibility for delivery of important human and welfare services. As governments have retreated from direct delivery of such services under the impetus of the New Public Management (NPM) reform agenda, they increasingly have had to rely on thir...

INTRODUCTION The Quality Measurement Framework (QMF) programme is being funded for three years by the Treasury under Invest to Save and led by the Office of National Statistics (ONS). The aim of the QMF programme is to create entirely new mechanisms for more effective and efficient measurement and monitoring of third sector provision of public services, reducing the burden on the third sector w...

Public sector commissioning has risen rapidly to prominence as the central mechanism for the ‘purchase’ of services in an increasingly mixed economy of public services in the UK and this has wide-ranging consequences for non-state actors including those in the third sector. Academic consideration of commissioning has been rather fragmented, concerned with particular service fields or sectors. T...

the aim of this study is to investigate the share of total factor productivity growth (tfpg), labor force growth and physical capital growth on the value added growth of non-oil sector by applying the cob-douglass production function during the third, fourth and fifth development plans before the islamic revolution of iran (1342-1356), and during the first, second, third and forth economic, soc...