Non-profit Governance

Twelve Frameworks for Organisations and Research

Guillaume Plaisance, Anne Goujon Belghit, Guillaume Plaisance, Anne Goujon Belghit

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032599861
• eBook ISBN: 9781040145777
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Non-profit Governance offers 12 perspectives and analytical frameworks to facilitate the development of governance in non-profit organisations (NPOs). 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 NPOs and responsible management. Each chapter therefore takes one or more of the principles of ISO 37000: 2021 in the non-profit context and builds an analytical framework around them. These 12 frameworks can thus be used by the organisations themselves to develop their governance practices and by researchers who will find original approaches to incorporate into their studies.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Endorsements Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part I Governance and controls: from disciplinary to cognitive approaches—Introduction
• Part II Governance and stakeholders: from regulation to alliances and collaboration—Introduction
• Part III Governance and performance: from financial survival to responsibilities—Introduction
• Part IV Governance and people: from human capital development to beneficiary focus—Introduction
• Conclusion
• Index