Dynamics of French Nonprofit Sector and Overlapping Market and State

Abstract

Purpose: The present paper is focused on growing role of civil society and its overlapping
space with corporate sector and the state institutions. Surprisingly, this is a worldwide
phenomenon invariably spread both developed as well as underdeveloped countries. Here
my thrust is to examine these overlapping space and mutual relationship among three
important sectors namely civil society, market and state with global context and the specific
situation of the France.

Design/ Methodology/ Approach: The research method followed to analyses the secondary
sources literatures to explore the dynamics of three important sectors of society. Explorative
research design has followed to examine the interface of three sectors. In this paper, review
has followed in the context of France based on secondary sources.

Findings: In this paper thrust has to see the dynamics of three sectors in the process of
democratization and development. Globally all three sectors are existing in all nation- states
irrespective of their role and status. Northern states/ developed countries like, USA, parts
of Europe, Japan etc has large corporate sector than the state and its institution. While
contrary to this, in the southern countries the state and its institution occupy large space and
play more dominating role than northern countries. Hence the purely economic condition of
this classification raises several questions specially changing dimension of global economy
and emerging China and India. The role of civil society is determined by the dominant
sector- the state or the corporate or sometime civil society also called the third sector. This
is a review research paper has been remarks on The French Nonprofit Sector’ published in
Voluntaristics Review, volume 3(2) by Laura Nirello and Lionel Prouteau as well as other
similar studies.