Najam’s Research Among Most Cited NML Papers
A research paper published in the Summer 2000 issue of the academic journal Nonprofit Management and Leadership (NML) by Prof. Adil Najam, now Dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies, has been included in the NML Pantheon, which consists of the six most cited papers published in the journal over the last 27 years. Prof. Mark Hager, the journal’s current editor, describes the six articles as the ones that “have garnered the greatest amount of public attention in the journal’s history. They are the best of the best.”
The NML Pantheon has been released as a special virtual issue which makes the selected articles free to the public till the end of April 2017. Prof. Najam’s paper, written when he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations, is titled ‘The Four C’s of Government Third Sector-Government Relations: Cooperation, Confrontation, Complementarity, and Co-optation‘ (NML 10(4): 375-396, 2000). Its abstract reads:
“All over the world, we see trends of increasing interaction between the third sector [NGOs] and governments. Is this the “start of a beautiful friendship” or are they already “too close for comfort”? This article argues that the nature of these complex relationships is poorly understood and often simplified. It proposes a four-C framework based on institutional interests and preferences for policy ends and means—cooperation in the case of similar ends and similar means, confrontation in the case of dissimilar ends and dissimilar means, complementarity in the case of similar ends but dissimilar means, and cooptation in the case of dissimilar ends but similar means.”
Najam’s full article can be downloaded free until the end of April (here).
The NML Pantheon features six of the most popular articles published in Nonprofit Management & Leadership in its first quarter-century of operations. With nearly 500 citations, Najam’s research paper (published in 2000) joins five others by Raymond Draft (2004), Robert Kaplan (2001), Robert Herman and David Renz (2008), Alnoor Ebrahim (2003), and William Brown(2005) that have been selected by the journal’s editors for their impact and popularity.
Although Najam’s later scholarship has focused more on climate change, sustainable development, and the politics of South Asia, his earlier research included a series of research papers on nonprofit (and NGO) management. This included an earlier paper, also published in Nonprofit Leadership & Management, titled “Understanding the Third Sector: Revisiting the Prince, the Merchant, and the Citizen” (NML 7(2): 203-219, 1996) and a research paper titled “NGO Accountability: A Conceptual Framework” (DPR, 14(4): 339-354, 1996), published in the journal Development Policy Review. Read more on Adil Najam and his research, here.