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• Title:Nonprofit organization governance : a theoretical review / by Stijn Van Puyvelde.
  
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• Related Title:Voluntaristics review.
  
• Author/Creator:Puyvelde, Stijn van, author.
  
• Published/Created:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:DAVID LAM LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HD62.6 .P89 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Nonprofit organizations--Management.
  
• Description:ix, 70 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Brill research perspectives.
  
• Summary:"Organizational governance has become a popular and important topic in third-sector research. This review focuses on the governance of paid-staff nonprofit organizations (also called nonprofit agencies), which are characterized by a hierarchical structure where the board has the power and the responsibility to ensure that governance functions are carried out. In this review, Van Puyvelde discusses previous literature on nonprofit organization governance. Next, a wide array of theoretical perspectives are presented that may be useful when studying the governance of nonprofit organizations. In order to analyze a number of important contemporary governance challenges, some of these theories are integrated by using a paradox perspective. The underlying idea is that depending upon the governance challenge under consideration, a different combination of theoretical perspectives may be required. Van Puyvelde concludes that different theoretical frameworks can co-exist in the literature, each addressing a different issue in nonprofit governance"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:"Originally published as Volume 1(3) 2016, in Voluntaristics Review"--Page following title page.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9789004321755 (paperback)
  9004321756 (paperback)
  9789004321762 (eBook)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Theoretical Review / Stijn Van Puyvelde
  Abstract
  Keywords
  1. Introduction
  2. Review of the Literature
  2.1. Previous Review Articles
  2.2. Analysis of the Recent Nonprofit Organization Governance Literature {2011
  2014)
  2.3. Governance Challenges for Nonprofit Organizations
  3. Theoretical Perspectives
  3.1. Main Theoretical Perspectives
  3.2. Management Theories
  3.2.1. Managerial Hegemony Theory
  3.2.2. Upper Echelons Theory
  3.3. Psychological Perspectives
  3.3.1. Organizational Commitment Theory
  3.3.2. Psychological Contract Theory
  3.3.3. Functional Motives Theory
  3.3.4. Shared Mental Model Theory
  3.3.5. Group Relations Theory
  3.4. Sociological Perspectives
  3.4.1. Social Construction Theory
  3.4.2. Social Capital Theory
  3.4.3. Sociological Modernization Theory
  3.4.4. Negotiated Order Theory
  3.4.5. Nonprofit Professionalization Perspectives
  3.5. Conclusion
  4. Integrating Theoretical Perspectives
  4.1. Paradox Perspective
  4.2. Stakeholder Accountability
  4.3. Environmental Dependence
  4.4. Volunteer Reliability
  4.5. Board Group Dynamics
  5. Conclusion.