Non-profit Governance Twelve Frameworks for Organisations and Research

Introduction

Guillaume Plaisance and Anne Goujon Belghit

Part I – Governance and controls: from disciplinary to cognitive approaches—Introduction

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—Introduction

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—Introduction

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—Introduction

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 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) axis of research in the Research Institute in Management Science (Bordeaux, France). He is the head of two master’s 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 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