2020 Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 25-39
Japan NPO Research Association (JANPORA) celebrates 20 years since its establishment. I have analyzed trends in research from conference presentation titles and abstracts of papers published in conference non-profits reviews over the last 20 years. Quantitative text analysis (text mining) was used as the analysis method. As a result, it was found that the research presented at the conference of the JANPORA was very well balanced and diverse in content. On the other hand, themes such as collaboration and volunteering were found to be on a downward trend, while themes such as social enterprise, social capital and social impact were found to be on an upward trend. Analyses of academic journal non-profits reviews suggest that submitted papers may be biased towards those that analyze the financial content of the corporation. In order to further improve NPO research in Japan in the future, it is necessary to regularly analyze the history of such research.
