You can download articles relevant and related to our research project below.
Articles about the community service organisations and the current social policy environment
Darcy, M. (2002) ‘Community Management: How management discourse killed participation’, Critical Quarterly 44 (4) Winter: 32-39.
Harris, M. (2001). This charity business: Who cares? Non-Profit Management and Leadership, 12(1), 95-109.
Harris, M. a. H., J. (2002). Achieving organizational collaboration in the nonprofit sector: an action research approach. Organization Development journal, 20(1), 28-35.
Meagher, G., & Healy, K. (2003). Caring, controlling, contracting and counting: Governments and non-profits in community services. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 62(3), 40-51.
Staples, J. (2006). NGO's out in the cold: the Howard Government's policy towards NGO's. Canberra: Democratic Audit of Australia, Australian National University.
Papers about local knowledge and knowledge in organisations
Tsoukas, H., & Mylonopoulos, N. (2004). Introduction: knowledge construction and creation in organizations. British Journal of Management, 15, S1-S8.
Orlikowski, W. J. (2002). Knowing in practice: Enacting a collective capability in distributed organizing. Organization Science, 13(3), 249-273.
Yanow, D. (2004) ‘Translating local knowledge of organizational peripheries,’ British Journal of Management, 15:9-25.
Reports and papers about network governance and partnerships.
OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships
and Local Governance, (2006)
Successful Partnerships: a Guide, Centre for Social Innovation, OECD,
France.
(This is a practical guide to establishing, sustaining and evaluating
partnerships based on a wealth of experience from several European countries. It
has lots of useful tools, suggestions etc for people setting up partnerships.)
Reports and papers about strengthening the health and well–being of communities.
Pope, J. & Warr, D. (2005)
Strengthening local communities: an overview of research examining the benefits of neighbourhood houses Melbourne, Department for Victorian Communities.
(One of the few examples of Australian research that researches and evaluates the contribution of community organisations such as Neighbourhood Centres to the health and well-being of communities.)
Wallerstein, N. (2006) What is the evidence on effectiveness of empowerment to improve health? Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe.
(An excellent article that brings together current research on the effectiveness of empowerment and participatory strategies for improving social connectedness, well-being and health in communities.
Wiseman, J. (2006) Local Heroes? Learning from recent community strengthening initiatives in Victoria? Australian Journal of Public Administration. 65(2) 95-107.
(This article discusses initiatives aimed at strengthening the engagement, connectedness and resilience of local communities.