Lucas C.P.M. Meijs (born 27 December 1963) a Dutch

organizational theorist An organization or organisation ( Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is an entity—such as a company, or corporation or an institution (formal organization), or an association—comprising one or more people and having a par ...

and Professor Volunteering, Civil Society and Businesses at the department Business-Society Management of the

Rotterdam School of Management Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (or RSM) is the international business school of the Erasmus University Rotterdam located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. RSM offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes taught mostly in English, ...

Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam ( ; abbreviated as EUR) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century Christian humanist and theologian. Erasmus M ...

and Professor ''Strategic Philanthropy'' at the Erasmus Centre for Strategic Philanthropy.

Biography

Born in

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English language, English) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the Provinces of the Nether ...

, Meijs studied

Business Administration Business administration is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. Overview The administration of a business includes the performance o ...

at Erasmus University Rotterdam and received a Ph.D. in Business Administration in 1997. The title of his doctoral thesis was ''Management of Volunteer Organizations''. In the summer of 1999, Lucas Meijs was a visiting scholar at the Department of Political Science and the School of Social Work at the

University of Georgia The University of Georgia (UGA or Georgia) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia, United States. Chartered in 1785, it is the oldest public university in th ...

, Athens, GA. In 2003, he was appointed Professor Volunteering, Civil Society and Businesses at the business faculty of

. In addition, in 2003, Meijs was a guest researcher at the Centre of Philanthropy and Nonprofit studies,

Queensland University of Technology The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. It has two major campuses, a modern city campus in Gardens Point, Brisbane, Gardens Point ...

in Brisbane, Australia. In 2010, Meijs was appointed Professor Strategic Philanthropy at the Erasmus Centre for Strategic Philanthropy. Since July 2010, Lucas Meijs further is editor in chief of ''

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly ''Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research on the nonprofit and voluntary sector. The journal's editors are Joanne Carman (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) and Jaclyn Piatak (Univ ...

'', the journal of the

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) was founded and incorporated in 1971 by David Horton Smith, with the help of Burt R. Baldwin, Richard D. Reddy, and Eugene D. White Jr. as the Association fo ...

(ARNOVA). He shares this function with Femida Handy of the University of Pennsylvania and Jeffrey L. Brudney of Cleveland State University.

Work

Meijs' research is focused on issues regarding strategic

philanthropy Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives for the Public good (economics), public good, focusing on quality of life". Philanthropy contrasts with business initiatives, which are private initiatives for private goo ...

, volunteer management, managing non-profit organizations,

corporate social responsibility Corporate social responsibility (CSR) or corporate social impact is a form of international private business industry self-regulation, self-regulation which aims to contribute to societal goals of a philanthropy, philanthropic, activist, or chari ...

, relations between companies and non-profit organizations, voluntary energy, student volunteering and involved learning.

Publications

Publications, a selection:Google Scholar profile
/ref> * Meijs, Lucas CPM, and Ludovicus Caspar Petrus Maria Meijs. Management van vrijwilligersorganisaties:(Management of volunteer organizations). NOV Publikaties, 1997. * Handy, Femida, et al. "Public perception of" who is a volunteer": An examination of the net-cost approach from a cross-cultural perspective." Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 11.1 (2000): 45–65. * Meijs, Lucas CPM, et al. All in the Eyes of the Beholder?. Springer US, 2003. * Handy, Femida, et al. "A cross-cultural examination of student volunteering: is it all about résumé building?." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 39.3 (2010): 498–523. * Haski-Leventhal, Debbie, Lucas CPM Meijs, and Lesley Hustinx. "The third-party model: Enhancing volunteering through governments, corporations and educational institutes." Journal of Social Policy 39.01 (2010): 139–158.

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Lucas Meijs
at Rotterdam School of Management {{DEFAULTSORT:Meijs, Lucas 1963 births Living people Dutch business theorists Erasmus University Rotterdam alumni Academic staff of Erasmus University Rotterdam People from Haarlem