Willems, Jurgen, Andersson, Frederik, Jegers, Marc, Renz, David. 2017. A Coalition Perspective on Nonprofit Governance Quality: Analyzing Dimensions of Influence in an Exploratory Comparative Case Analysis. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. 28 (4), 1422-1447.
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Abstract
We answer the call that governance research should focus more on processes outside the boundaries of boards, especially for nonprofit organizations. In particular, we suggest and elaborate concrete steps with respect to the advantages of a leadership coalition perspective to focus more on the behavioral and informal aspects of governance. Through a comparative case analysis of five nonprofit organizations, we explore contingencies between characteristics of nonprofit leadership coalitions and governance quality. We identify two dimensions to classify leadership coalitions: centralized versus diffused influence and specific versus holistic influence. These dimensions are subsequently related with observed governance quality. We frame our finding in the existing literature on group faultlines, which are socially constructed dividing lines within groups, and we discuss the importance of establishing a balanced coalition between a weak or nonexisting and a strong dominant coalition to ensure high governance quality. We also present propositions on how governance quality and its various sub-dimensions can be studied as a complex, nonlinear intermediate concept between coalitional aspects of leadership groups and nonprofit organizational performance. Finally, we discuss concrete avenues for further testing and verification of our theoretical interpretation.
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- Leadership coalitions
- Comparative case analysis
- leadership
- power
- influence
- qualitative
Publication's profile
Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | External |
Type of publication | Journal article |
Journal | Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations |
Citation Index | SSCI |
WU Journalrating 2009 | A |
WU-Journal-Rating new | INF-A, MAN-A, STRAT-B, WH-B |
Language | English |
Title | A Coalition Perspective on Nonprofit Governance Quality: Analyzing Dimensions of Influence in an Exploratory Comparative Case Analysis |
Volume | 28 |
Number | 4 |
Year | 2017 |
Page from | 1422 |
Page to | 1447 |
Reviewed? | Y |
URL | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292342368_A_Coalition_Perspective_on_Nonprofit_Governance_Quality_Analyzing_Dimensions_of_Influence_in_an_Exp |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11266-016-9683-6 |
Open Access | N |
Associations
- People
- Willems, Jurgen (Details)
- External
- Andersson, Frederik (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, United States/USA)
- Jegers, Marc (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
- Renz, David (University of Missouri, United States/USA)
- Research areas (Ă–STAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 5234 Administrative science (Details)
- 5308 Management sciences (Details)
- 5363 Non-profit-sector research (NPO, NPI) (Details)
- 5529 Group dynamics (Details)
- 5837 Group dynamics (Details)
- 6906 Public research (Details)