Within this extensive and long-term research program, developed at the Centre since the early 1990s, two main contributions can be noticed. Firstly, combined theoretical and empirical efforts – in close cooperation with several international academic partners – have been instrumental in bringing the nonprofit sector (den ideella sektorn) and its various fields of organisations into the scholarly and academic arena as well as the more public debate in Sweden; thus “putting the sector on the map”. In a second step, a number of in-depth studies focused on strategic and organisational issues are conducted with the explicit aim and ambition to contribute to a better understanding of how civil society organisations are governed, led and operated.
Researchers currently involved in the program:
- Ester Barinaga, Associate Professor
- , PhD Candidate
- , PhD Candidate
- Johan Hvenmark, PhD Candidate
- Anna Lundstedt, PhD
- Marta Reuter, PhD
- Erik Sjöstrand, PhD candidate
- Johan Söderholm, Econ Lic & PhD Candidate
- Karl Wennberg, Assistant Professor
- Filip Wijkström, Associate Professor
The Civil Society Research Program is led and coordinated by Associate Professor Filip Wijkström, also Director of the Economic Research Institute at SSE, and currently active as Scientific Secretary at SparbanksAkademin.
Research Program Partners
Trinity College Dublin
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Centrum für Soziale Investitionen und Innovationen
CINEFOGO
The European Student Corner
The EPICS program