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

organizational theorist Organizational theory refers to the set of interrelated concepts that involve the sociological study of the structures and operations of formal social organizations. Organizational theory also attempts to explain how interrelated units of organiz ...

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'', nl, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam ) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century humanist ...

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

Biography

Born in

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

, Meijs studied

Business Administration Business administration, also known as business management, is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. From the point of view of management ...

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 , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

, 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 Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public research university located in the urban coastal city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. QUT is located on two campuses in the Brisbane area viz. Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove. The univ ...

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 (Un ...

'', 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 for ...

(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) is a form of international private business self-regulation which aims to contribute to societal goals of a philanthropic, activist, or charitable nature by engaging in or supporting volunteering or ethicall ...

, 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