Governance Approach in Asia's Third Sector: Adapted Western or Modified Asian?

Abstract

 

Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney with partners in six countries (China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam) undertook a comprehensive comparative work on governance and its relationship to performance and accountability in the third sector organizations (TSOs). The work was published as Comparative Third Sector Governance in Asia: Structure, Process, and Political Economy, Springer, 2008. This chapter (11), by summarising and highlighting some contentions, attempts to answer the original research question: is there an Asian approach to governance of TSOs? A related question: “how does the corporate governance model play out on the ground” is also dealt with.

Keywords: Accountability, Civil society, NGO, Non-governmental organisations, Governance, Third sector board, China, Voluntary organizations in India, Indonesia, NGO in the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, Civil society in China, LSM in Indonesia, NGO governance, NGO board, Corporate governance,