BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.1//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2104@wwz.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261007T154127 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261126T181500 SUMMARY:Lecture by Prof. Dr. Michael Meyer\, WU Vienna DESCRIPTION:Public lecture by Professor Michael Meyer on the topic: What We Know About Nonprofits – and What We Really Should KnowThursday\, Novemb er 26\, 2026 at 18:15 in the Auditorium of the WWZ\, Peter Merian-Weg 6\, Basel\, followed by an Apéro.\\r\\nNo registration required. \\r\\nProgr am\\r\\n18:15 Welcome by Dean Prof. Dr. Beat Hintermann\\r\\n18:20 Lecture by Prof. Dr. Michael Meyer \\r\\n19:00h Public Discussion\\r\\n19:15h Ap éro\\r\\nAbstract\\r\\nNonprofit organizations are ubiquitous in modern s ocieties. They provide essential services\, mobilize citizens\, advocate f or political and social causes\, redistribute resources\, and create space s for collective action. They therefore offer a particularly rich setting for studying fundamental questions about organizations\, institutions\, go vernance\, and societal change. Indeed\, public and nonprofit organization s figured prominently in the formative works of modern organization studie s\, from Weber’s bureaucracy and Barnard’s cooperative systems to Selz nick’s institutional analysis and March and Simon’s studies of organiz ational decision-making. Only later did business organizations become the predominant empirical setting for much organizational research.Over the pa st decades\, nonprofit scholarship has developed into a specialized and pr oductive research field\, generating substantial knowledge about the disti nctive characteristics of nonprofits and nonprofit-specific actors such as volunteers and donors. Much of this research has consequently focused on questions of sector origins\, governance\, volunteering\, donating\, and o rganizational impact. Less attention has been paid to a broader question t hat connects nonprofit research directly to major conversations across the social sciences: How do nonprofit organizations shape societies? I propos e a reorientation from organizational forms and origins toward practices a nd their societal effects. There are various channels through which nonpro fits contribute to macro-level outcomes. Examining what nonprofits do\, un der what conditions\, and with what consequences can therefore contribute not only to our understanding of the nonprofit sector\, but also to broade r theories of organizations\, institutions\, markets\, democracy\, and soc ietal change. X-ALT-DESC:

Public lecture by Professor Michael Meyer on the topic: What We Know About Nonprofits – and What We Really Should Know

Thursday\, November 26\, 2026 at 18:15 in the Auditorium of the WWZ\, Peter Merian-Weg 6\, Basel\, followed by an Apéro.

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No r egistration required.
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Program

\n< p>18:15 Welcome by Dean Prof. Dr. Beat Hintermann

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18:20 Lecture by Prof. Dr. Michael Meyer \;

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19:00h Public Discussion

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1 9:15h Apéro

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Abstract

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Nonprofit org anizations are ubiquitous in modern societies. They provide essential serv ices\, mobilize citizens\, advocate for political and social causes\, redi stribute resources\, and create spaces for collective action. They therefo re offer a particularly rich setting for studying fundamental questions ab out organizations\, institutions\, governance\, and societal change. Indee d\, public and nonprofit organizations figured prominently in the formativ e works of modern organization studies\, from Weber’s bureaucracy and Ba rnard’s cooperative systems to Selznick’s institutional analysis and M arch and Simon’s studies of organizational decision-making. Only later d id business organizations become the predominant empirical setting for muc h organizational research.
Over the past decades\, nonprofit scholars hip has developed into a specialized and productive research field\, gener ating substantial knowledge about the distinctive characteristics of nonpr ofits and nonprofit-specific actors such as volunteers and donors. Much of this research has consequently focused on questions of sector origins\, g overnance\, volunteering\, donating\, and organizational impact. Less atte ntion has been paid to a broader question that connects nonprofit research directly to major conversations across the social sciences: How do nonpro fit organizations shape societies? I propose a reorientation from organiza tional forms and origins toward practices and their societal effects. Ther e are various channels through which nonprofits contribute to macro-level outcomes. Examining what nonprofits do\, under what conditions\, and with what consequences can therefore contribute not only to our understanding o f the nonprofit sector\, but also to broader theories of organizations\, i nstitutions\, markets\, democracy\, and societal change.

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