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Overview

Taco Brandsen is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple areas within social sciences and business disciplines, with a focus on nonprofit sector dynamics, public administration, and organizational studies.

The main fields of study covered by their work include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Business, Management and Accounting

Within these broader fields, their research further specializes in subfields such as:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Strategy and Management
  • Education
  • Finance
  • Public Administration

The topics frequently addressed in their publications are:

  • Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
  • Community Development and Social Impact
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Business Strategy and Innovation
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Social Sciences and Governance

Brandsen has contributed to several journals and publication venues, including:

  • VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
  • Public Management Review
  • Public Administration Review
  • Social Enterprise Journal
  • Organization Theory

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Brandsen cover a variety of topics and have appeared in well-regarded venues:

  • Coproduction during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Will It Last?, 2020, Public Administration Review
  • Collaborative Governance, 2021, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
  • The Evolution of Third Sector Research and the Journal Voluntas: The Editors' Impressions, 2020, VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
  • The impact of the cooperative structure on organizational social capital, 2021, Social Enterprise Journal
  • Putting Centrality Central in the Study of Institutional Complexity: On the relative and relational aspects of the centrality of institutional logics, 2024, Organization Theory

Brandsen frequently collaborates with a set of recurring co-authors, including:

  • Marlies Honingh
  • Ruth Simsa
  • Trui Steen
  • Jan-Kees Helderman
  • Menno Hoppen

Best Publications

  • Co-production, the third sector and the delivery of public services : an introduction

    Taco Brandsen;Victor Pestoff

  • Co-production: The State of the Art in Research and the Future Agenda

    Bram Verschuere;Taco Brandsen;Victor Pestoff

  • Griffins or Chameleons? Hybridity as a Permanent and Inevitable Characteristic of the Third Sector

    Taco Brandsen;Wim van de Donk;Kim Putters

  • Distinguishing Different Types of Coproduction: A Conceptual Analysis Based on the Classical Definitions

    Taco Brandsen;Marlies Honingh

  • New public governance, the third sector and co-production

    Victor Alexis Pestoff;Taco Brandsen;Bram Verschuere

  • Co-Production and Co-Creation Engaging Citizens in Public Services

    Taco Brandsen;Trui Steen;Bram Verschuere

  • Patterns of co-production in public services - Some concluding thoughts

    Victor Pestoff;Stephen P. Osborne;Taco Brandsen

  • Hybrid Organizations: No Cause for Concern?

    Taco Brandsen;Philip Marcel Karré

  • Restoring Trust Through the Co-Production of Public Services: A theoretical elaboration

    Joost Fledderus;Taco Brandsen;Marlies Honingh

  • The potential impacts of digital technologies on co-production and co-creation

    Veiko Lember;Taco Brandsen;Piret Tõnurist

  • Public governance and the third sector: opportunities for co-production and innovation?

    Victor Pestoff;Taco Brandsen

  • Co-production. The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services

    Stephen Osborne;T. Brandsen;V. Pestoff

  • Definitions of co-production and co-creation

    Taco Brandsen;Marlies Honingh

  • State–third Sector Partnerships: A short overview of key issues in the debate

    Ingo Bode;Taco Brandsen

  • The dark side of co-creation and co-production: seven evils

    Trui Steen;Taco Brandsen;Bram Verschuere

  • The state and the reconstruction of civil society

    Taco Brandsen;Willem Trommel;Bram Verschuere

  • Social Innovations in the Urban Context

    Taco Brandsen;Sandro Cattacin;Adalbert Evers;Annette Zimmer

  • Co-management in public service networks: the organizational effects

    T. Brandsen;E.J.Th. van Hout

  • User co-production of public service delivery: An uncertainty approach

    Joost Fledderus;Taco Brandsen;Marlies Elisabeth Honingh

  • Social Innovations for Social Cohesion: Transnational Patters and Approaches from 20 European Cities

    A. Evers;B. Ewert;T. Brandsen

  • Soft governance, hard consequences: The ambiguous status of unofficial guidelines

    Taco Brandsen;Marcel Boogers;Pieter Tops

  • Co-production during and after the Covid-19 pandemic: will it last?

    Trui Steen;Taco Brandsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Bram Verschuere
Bram Verschuere Ghent University
Frank Hendriks
Frank Hendriks Tilburg University
Stephen P. Osborne
Stephen P. Osborne University of Edinburgh
Dave Huitema
Dave Huitema Wageningen University & Research

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