Comprehensive Report: Leading and Managing Non-Profit Organizations

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of leadership and management within non-profit organizations, drawing on various academic sources. It explores key themes such as the conceptualization of non-profit organizations, agency and stewardship theories, stakeholder engagement, organizational effectiveness, the role of corporate culture, market orientation, organizational commitment, the impact of values, transformational leadership, social media's role in advocacy, historical perspectives, board chair leadership, the distinctiveness of the third sector, the business-like transformation of non-profits, the relevance of reputation, the impact of female leadership, diversity in the sector, and the link between mission statements and organizational performance. The report synthesizes research findings to offer insights into effective leadership practices, challenges, and opportunities within the non-profit sector, providing a valuable resource for students and professionals alike. The report covers many aspects of non-profit organizations and provides information on the topic.

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Coule, T. M. (2015). Non-profit governance and accountability: Broadening the
theoretical perspective. Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 44(1), 75-97.
In this following article is based on the study of conceptualization of belief in the nature of
the non-profit organization. Special relationships of the integral feature clarifies how the
organization assumes. Conversely, it appears to create space for the accountability of the
stakeholders. The article specifies on the theories of agency and stewardship theory that
address the principal agent relationships. The theories explains the behaviour in the
hierarchical order where the scholars had raised the questions on the principal aspect of the
theories. The stakeholder theory specifies on the non-profit form of organization that is
between the non-profits and the external stakeholder.
Valentinov, V., & Iliopoulos, C. (2013). Economic theories of non-profits and agricultural
cooperatives compared: New perspectives for non-profit scholars. Non-profit and
Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 42(1), 109-126.
The following journal has been published by the non-profit and voluntary sector that discuss
about the cross-fertilization potential which exist within the economic theory of agriculture
and that with the non-profit organizations. There has been a number of ideas that are placed
on the theory of cooperative as they generate two novel insight which is pertaining to the
non-profit organization. On the other hand the demand of the economic justification on the
non-profit business is just like the agricultural cooperatives which likely includes the reasons
of market success and market failure. The similarities between the corporative and non-profit
business is that they are based on the ownership structure that are different from the profit
based companies.
Willems, J., Jegers, M., & Faulk, L. (2016). Organizational effectiveness reputation in the
non-profit sector. Public Performance & Management Review, 39(2), 454-475.

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The public organizations are relying on the factors of non-profit partners for the system of
delivery in the public services in the market. The partners of the delivery in the public
services had become a trend for the markers of the performance assessment in the non-profit
business organization with the purpose of allocation in the government resources. However
on the other hand the non-profit business firm will engage itself with the multiple number of
stakeholder that will lead to complex to construct a set of organizational goals. The aim of the
article is specified on the concept of developing organizational performance of the
stakeholder that brings together the organization in the effect of its reputation.
Carlos Pinho, J., Paula Rodrigues, A., & Dibb, S. (2014). The role of corporate culture,
market orientation and organisational commitment in organisational performance: the
case of non-profit organisations. Journal of Management Development, 33(4), 374-398.
The purpose of the assignment is related to the fact of conceptual framework that explores the
concept on the following construction. The corporate organization is focused on the culture,
market orientation and the organizational commitment. The designing approach is linked
with the previous studies in the field of a quantitative research that has been adopted by the
organization. The data is collected on the performance level of the mail survey that has been
conducted on the Portuguese non-profit working organization. The result is shown to the
organization with the implication on the company and the way it performs. The market is
concerned with the orientation consequences and the result that it occurs with the higher level
of the orientation program resulting both in organizational performance and in the
commitments.
Chen, K. K., Lune, H., & Queen, E. L. (2013). How values shape and are shaped by non-
profit and voluntary organizations: The current state of the field. Non-profit and voluntary
sector quarterly, 42(5), 856-885.

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The article focuses on the understanding of organizational objectives and values that
synthesizes the research on sociology behaviour. The article tries to draw attention on the
cultural factor and reflect on the propagating values of the need of possible ways to
implement them in organizations. As non-profit organizations are not acquainted with the
need of financial reports, it emphasizes more on the significance of maintaining values. The
article has been also creating suggestions of collective particulars to be practiced in the non-
profit organisations. The profit organisations do follow the same aspects in terms of adapted
financial analysis and a broader organisational expansion.
Freeborough, R., & Patterson, K. (2016). Exploring the effect of transformational
leadership on non-profit leader engagement. Servant Leadership: Theory & Practice, 2(1),
4.
The article focuses on the implications and validity of transformational leadership in a for-
profit and non-profit organisations. According to the vivid discussions, it is found that the
profit organisations receive validity and support for leadership theory but the non-profit
organisation, due to lack of empirical support lags behind with the implications and need of
transformational leadership theory. Most importantly, non-profit organisations are the ones
that are hugely engaged in the practice of transformational leadership implications. The
proposed loopholes shed light on the incompetency approach of the practice in the non-profit
firms and therefore, the article suggests better strategies.
Guo, C., & Saxton, G. D. (2014). Tweeting social change: How social media are changing
non-profit advocacy. Non-profit and voluntary sector quarterly, 43(1), 57-79.
The motive of this article is focusing on the use of social media and channels for popularising
the working advocacy needs. The article questions addresses the factors that implies the use
of social media by referring to the in-depth analysis of social messages being spread by the

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marketing skits. The level wise analysis of the twofold approach of the communication and
advocacy themes generate the dynamic approach in identifying the organisational practices.
The inductive approach of the analysis further depicts the form of needed communicational
channels to speak to the stakeholders.
Hall, P. D. (2016). Historical perspectives on non-profit organizations in the United States.
The Jossey-Bass handbook of non-profit leadership and management, 3-33.
The handbook article in its chapter one explains that no matter how much the conception of
non-profit organisations have grown up, the implication of the term non-profit or no finance
has come to obsolete since 1970s and hardly any of the organisations are found to work on
absolute selfless terms. The indication of the paper points out the historical perception and
facts related to non-profit organisations in the United States that is seemingly be diminishing
with growing time and economic success of the states. Hence, with following the timeline
sequences, the article explains the economic and business oriented perceptions of the United
States in its social set up.
Harrison, Y., Murray, V., & Cornforth, C. (2013). Perceptions of board chair leadership
effectiveness in non-profit and voluntary sector organizations. VOLUNTAS: International
Journal of Voluntary and Non-profit Organizations, 24(3), 688-712.
The purpose of the paper is focusing on the impact of board chair leadership in non-profit
organisations. The impact is analysed based on the implication research conducted on
organisational functioning Canada, the US and the UK. Based on the hypothesis tests created
from the theoretical perceptions on chair leadership, the effectiveness is analysed reflecting
two significant sides of empirical support and explanatory percept of the theories. With
reference to the use of chair leadership, the effectiveness of the theories is understood while

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placing it into multi-dimensional theories of the concepts. The explanation can consider more
than one theory to create a contrasting conclusion.
Macmillan, R. (2013). 'Distinction 'in the third sector. Voluntary Sector Review, 4(1), 39-
54.
The paper claims that the relativity and distinctness of third sector organisation are spread
wide and is comfortably familiar with analysis and commentary of the research. The paper
withholds the necessary theories as well as empirical conceptions for examining the
effectiveness of distinction, and arguing on inconclusiveness. The term organisations of non-
profit are replaced with contested field referring to its arguments extended in a complications
of the paper. The paper utilises the effectiveness of the paper complications and recommend
the enquiring over list third sector researches. As the paper claims, the distinction of the
different literary implication can vary, the answer to such real instincts can be deferred easily.
Maier, F., Meyer, M., & Steinbereithner, M. (2016). Non-profit organizations becoming
business-like: A systematic review. Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 45(1), 64-
86.
The article refers to the recent transformation of non-profit organisations to the structural
functioning style of profit organisations. The phenomenon is global and have lots of
implications that attends the deep studying of organisations and their management culture.
The complexions of over lapping events in the research distinct the major challenges. With a
systematic presentation of literary sources, the relevant sources are analysed to find the
effectiveness of the organisational processing. The NPOs are nowadays growing with the
conception of being growing like profit based business that have certain structures, policies
and procedures of working an organisation.

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Schloderer, M. P., Sarstedt, M., & Ringle, C. M. (2014). The relevance of reputation in the
non-profit sector: The moderating effect of socio‐demographic characteristics.
International Journal of Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, 19(2), 110-126.
This paper stretches out earlier get some information about on the notoriety of generous
affiliations (NPOs) by inquisitive about the organizing movement of socio‐demographic
properties in keeping NPO notoriety and notoriety's consequences for giving and
volunteering conduct. The exposures offer new bits of learning into the movement a NPO's
notoriety plays and its impacts on key results, for example, readiness to give and fill in as an
intentional part in express subgroups. The outcomes display that gainful notoriety the
executives is explicitly basic for male, continuously arranged, fundamentally taught, and
princely respondents. Communicational evaluations prepared for strengthening an alliance's
social responsibility are especially encouraging as for ordering extraordinary supporter
immediate and unfaltering help.
Strøm, R. Ø., D’Espallier, B., & Mersland, R. (2014). Female leadership, performance,
and governance in microfinance institutions. Journal of Banking & Finance, 42, 60-75.
This paper asks about the relations between female pro, firm execution, and corporate
association in a general driving gathering of 329 Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in 73
nations covering the years 1998–2008. The microfinance business is especially legitimate for
contemplating the effect of female master on association and execution on account of its
central target heading, its creative nature, fluctuating institutional conditions, and anomalous
condition of female pioneers. We watch female association to be all around related with more
noteworthy sheets, continuously youthful firms, a non-business authentic status, and
dynamically female customer base. Furthermore, we locate that a female CEO and a female

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head of the board are stubbornly identified with MFI execution, at any rate this outcome isn't
driven by improved association.
Weisinger, J. Y., Borges-Méndez, R., & Milofsky, C. (2016). Diversity in the non-profit and
voluntary sector. Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 45(1_suppl), 3S-27S.
In this as it so happens paper to the amazing issue of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector
Quarterly on assembled variety, we start by researching the overseers get some information
about on not all that awful combination in establishments. The quality of this examination
bases on estimation delineation. While legitimately contemporary procedures stress thought
in principal activity, even this system misses the mark since get-together gathering and
character have wound up being powerfully flighty and liquid. The last part of this
presentation audits articles intertwined into the fascinating issue.
Macedo, I. M., Pinho, J. C., & Silva, A. M. (2016). Revisiting the link between mission
statements and organizational performance in the non-profit sector: The mediating effect
of organizational commitment. European Management Journal, 34(1), 36-46.
Despite the manner in which that statements of purpose are generally gotten as a basic key
instrument, their reasonable effect on authoritative presentation are not solidly settled in light
of a nonattendance of obvious outcomes in significant sythesis. To reveal understanding into
this relationship, the present evaluation proposes a model to separate the intervening work of
different leveled commitment in clarifying and explaining the mission-execution interface.
Another estimation of this paper is to think about mission a developmental structure.
Tolerating a quantitative methodological framework, this appraisal reports disclosures
obtained from an administrator preliminary of 112 non-advantage helpful organizations
affiliations working in Portugal.

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Costa, E., & Pesci, C. (2016). Social impact measurement: why do stakeholders
matter? Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, 7(1), 99-124.
This paper hopes to discuss the probability of social impact of social impact estimation in
social endeavours by supporting the distinctive notoriety based open hypothesis as a pledge
to this under-speculated issue. Additionally, the paper proposes the associate based
perspective as the most fitting response for decision among estimations related to the creation
number of social impact estimations. The varying law based estimation framework should
handicap relationship from unmistakably picking a social impact estimation with the sole
explanation for showing a higher impact, as, inside the proposed new perspective, social
impact estimations are never again administered self-rulingly by the social undertakings
themselves. Or then again potentially, these estimations are portrayed and made with the
partners. As such, social endeavours’ manipulative objectives should diminish.
Harangozó, G., & Zilahy, G. (2015). Cooperation between business and non-governmental
organizations to promote sustainable development. Journal of Cleaner Production, 89, 18-
31.
Worldwide natural technique has since quite a while back clear the action of both the
ordinary and business zones in the execution of reasonable improvement, as reflected by the
Earth Summit in 1992 (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de
Janeiro) and the resulting age of the Agenda 21 activity plan. This paper demonstrates the
consequences of research looking relationship between non-regulatory affiliations and
affiliations subject to the accessory hypothesis of the firm. The outcomes demonstrate that
little and medium-sized undertakings rank the vitality of various assistants comparably to
more noteworthy affiliations and typically partake in a joint exertion with non-definitive
affiliations.

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Golini, R., Kalchschmidt, M., & Landoni, P. (2015). Adoption of project management
practices: The impact on international development projects of non-governmental
organizations. International Journal of Project Management, 33(3), 650-663.
Overall Development (ID) undertakings did by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
are viewed as one of the areas for offering help to making nations, at any rate these
undertakings are spoken to have high disappointment rates and their presentation is regularly
considered not engaging. Starting late geniuses considered undertaking the board (PM)
rehearses as conceivable response for the terrible showing up of ID experiences. The
outcomes show various degrees of progression in the arrangement of PM contraptions that
are identified with undertaking achievement in both the short and entire arrangement.
Hall, M., Millo, Y., & Barman, E. (2015). Who and what really counts? Stakeholder
prioritization and accounting for social value. Journal of Management Studies, 52(7),
907-934.
Research in accessory the authorities has conjectured widely the prioritization of accessories
as a key dynamic of firms' worth creation, in any case has given less idea to the conclusive
practices attracted with the way toward picking 'who and what truly checks.' We study the
climb and progress of Social Return on Investment (SROI): a bookkeeping thinking proposed
to allow manager both to join assistants' voices and to pass on the social worth made by the
firm for those associates. Our disclosures add to accessory theory by displaying that the
prioritization of accessories isn't exclusively a definitive choice, at any rate rather is subject
to the improvement of a proper bookkeeping and revealing structure, as formed by
supervisor's epistemic sentiments and by the connection's material conditions.
Sodhi, M. S. (2015). Conceptualizing social responsibility in operations via stakeholder
resource‐based view. Production and Operations Management, 24(9), 1375-1389.

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We endeavour to conceptualize social duty regarding practices the board (OM) research to
build up a social commitment purpose of combination through which to see endeavours’.
These various accessories are all things considered embarked to look for growing their
changed (predicted) utility, with various drivers encircling their inclinations and do so they
utilize their particular assets, schedules and dynamic limits. SRBV gives (an) an expressive
structure for passionate research, (b) an instrumental system for preliminary research, and (c)
an overseeing structure for instructive research. It draws in dealing with different open portals
for OM research to do with social duty and we chart a touch of these in the majority of the
three sorts of research techniques.