Third sector capacity building : the institutional embeddedness of supply

DAYSON, Christopher, MACMILLAN, Rob, PAINE, Angela Ellis and SANDERSON, Elizabeth (2017). Third sector capacity building : the institutional embeddedness of supply. Voluntary Sector Review, 8 (2), 149-168.

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Abstract

Previous articles in Voluntary Sector Review have documented the evolution of third sector capacity-building policy (Macmillan, 2011) and addressed the focus on ‘market-making’, characterised by a discursive shift since 2010 that favours demand-led over supply-led delivery models (Macmillan, 2013). This article builds on these articles by using data from the National Survey of Charities and Social Enterprises (NSCSE) to investigate the characteristics of third sector organisations on the supply side of the capacity-building ‘market’. We argue that the ambitions of the demand-led model need to be understood in the context of the embeddedness of these organisations. This is based on findings that suggests that, immediately prior to the identified discursive shift, a significant proportion of third sector capacity-building providers were embedded in the supply-led model through relationships with and funding from the public sector locally and nationally. This, we suggest, could thwart the ambitions of the demand-led model.

Item Type: Article
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1332/204080517X14896680067107
Page Range: 149-168
Depositing User: Sarah Ward
Date Deposited: 24 Mar 2017 09:57
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 01:03
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/15406

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