1st Edition
Non-profit Governance Twelve Frameworks for Organisations and Research
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
Guillaume Plaisance and Anne Goujon Belghit
Part I – Governance and controls: from disciplinary to cognitive approaches
Chapter 1 – From Traditional to Collaborative Governance: A stakeholder environment framework
Marc Pilon and François Brouard
Chapter 2 – Implementing and Maintaining an Effective Risk Management System in Non-Profit Organisations: A Conceptual Framework
Elisabeth Bertin
Chapter 3 – The role of public actors in the governance of French non-profit organisations: proposing an integrated governance analysis framework
Eric-Alain Zoukoua
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
Pauline Boisselier
Chapter 5 – What strategic processes to meet the challenges of democratic governance? The case of mergers between non-profit organisations
Adrien Laurent
Chapter 6 – Alliances for Outcome Evaluation and Theory of Change to Generate Impact: Integrating Network Level and Organisational Level Effort Via Organisational Learning
Rong Wang
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
Renée A. Irvin
Chapter 8 – Double or Tandem Movement? The Emergence and Evolution of Non-profit Social Responsibility
Shawn Pope
Chapter 9 – Social responsibility and sustainability in non-profit organisations: towards a semantic and conceptual precision
Guillaume Plaisance
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
Nathalie Dubost
Chapter 11 – Why meaning-making capabilities for non-profit executives? Understanding the nature of non-profit leadership between the general and middle-range approaches
Sungdae Lim
Chapter 12 – Authentic Beneficiary Engagement in the Aged Care Sector: Advancing Non-profit Governance through Care
Kylie Kingston, Sari Rossi, Belinda Luke and Alexandra Williamson
Conclusion
Guillaume Plaisance and Anne Goujon Belghit
Biography
Guillaume Plaisance is an Associate Professor at the IAE - Bordeaux University School of Management and is the deputy-head of the CSR axis of research in the Research Institute in Management Science (Bordeaux, France). He is the head of master’s program dedicated 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 non-profit organisations 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). 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 l’Entreprise).
“We who make it our work to study nonprofit governance are fortunate to have this valuable resource to inform our work in these exciting and sometimes-paradoxical times” Prof. David O. Renz, Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership
