Non-profit Governance offers twelve perspectives and analytical frameworks to facilitate the development of governance in non-profit organisations.
Non-profit Governance offers twelve perspectives and analytical frameworks to facilitate the development of governance in non-profit organisations. In this sector, governance is all the more important because it is often voluntary. Organisations therefore need to be supported in their management, accountability and strategy. International standards (in particular ISO 37000:2021, dedicated to the governance of organisations) propose key principles to ensure value creation around stakeholder engagement, leadership, risk governance, social responsibility and organisational sustainability. This book proposes to explore and adapt these principles to the non-profit sector. To do this, the book focuses on four facets of governance: the controls it puts in place, the stakeholders it must listen to and manage, the performance it must monitor and, finally, the people it must lead and mobilise. The book also highlights the interest of governance mechanisms and processes in developing effective performance, ethics in non-profit organisations, and responsible management. Each chapter therefore takes one or more of the principles of ISO 37000 in the non-profit context and builds an analytical framework around them. These twelve frameworks can thus be used by the organisations themselves to develop their governance practices, but also by researchers who will find original approaches to incorporate into their studies.
Introduction Part I Governance and controls: from disciplinary to
cognitive approaches
Chapter 1 From Traditional to Collaborative
Governance: A stakeholder environment framework
Chapter 2 Implementing and
Maintaining an Effective Risk Management System in Non-Profit Organisations:
A Conceptual Framework
Chapter 3 The role of public actors in the
governance of French non-profit organisations: proposing an integrated
governance analysis framework Part II Governance and stakeholders: from
regulation to alliances and collaboration
Chapter 4 New rules: how funding
and control tools shape the relationships between social actions actors
Chapter 5 What strategic processes to meet the challenges of democratic
governance? The case of mergers between non-profit organisations
Chapter 6
Alliances for Outcome Evaluation and Theory of Change to Generate Impact:
Integrating Network Level and Organisational Level Effort Via Organisational
Learning Part III Governance and performance: from financial survival to
responsibilities
Chapter 7 Drama-Free Finance: Structures and Strategies
for Stability and Growth in Non-profit Organisations
Chapter 8 Double or
Tandem Movement? The Emergence and Evolution of Non-profit Social
Responsibility
Chapter 9 Social responsibility and sustainability in
non-profit organisations: towards a semantic and conceptual precision Part IV
Governance and people: from human capital development to beneficiary focus
Chapter 10 How to retain volunteers? A literature review and a managerial
proposal of a volunteer journey
Chapter 11 Why meaning-making capabilities
for non-profit executives? Understanding the nature of non-profit leadership
between the general and middle-range approaches
Chapter 12 Authentic
Beneficiary Engagement in the Aged Care Sector: Advancing Non-profit
Governance through Care Conclusion
Guillaume Plaisance is an associate professor at the IAE Bordeaux University School of Management and is the deputy-head of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) axis of research in the Research Institute in Management Science (Bordeaux, France). He is the head of two masters programmes dedicated to the management of non-profit organisations and to the management of the social responsibility of organisations. He conducted a PhD thesis linking non-profit governance and performance management. His research themes focus on the governance and management of NPOs and the social and societal responsibility of organisations. He is the Vice-president of Recherches & Solidarités, an NPO composed of professional and scientific experts who study the third sector. He is one of the Associate Editors of the Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing.
Anne Goujon Belghit is a full professor at the University of Limoges (France) from September 2024. She is a member of CREOP laboratory research. Her academic research concerns four specific fields: ethical decision-making, the relationship to employment, the Territorial Social Responsibility (TSR), and management in non-profit organisations. She teaches organisational behaviour, human resource management, career management, CSR, TSR, and Social and Sustainable Economy (SSE) issues. She is in charge of the chair of human capital of Bordeaux, and she is editor for the academic journal VSE (Vie & Sciences de lEntreprise).
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