The Governance of Public and Non-Profit Organizations (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cornforth, Chris

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Boards play a crucial role in ensuring that public and nonprofit publicly accountable and perform well. Following various failures and scandals they face increasing scrutiny, pressure and expectations. Serious questions have been raised about the ability of boards to govern effectively.
Such concerns have stimulated a renewed interest in organizational governance, and a growing literature on the subject. Much of the current literature, however, has been criticized for underestimating the constraints and conflictions demands that boards face and recommending unrealistic solutions. There have been relatively few detailed empirical studies of what boards do in practice. This book fills that gap by bringing together analyses based upon some of the best recent empirical studies of public and non-profit governance in the UK.
Using a new theoretical framework that highlights the paradoxical nature of governance the book throws light on the questions at the heart of recent debates about nonprofit boards:
* Are boards publicly accountable or is there a democratic deficit?
* Are boards able to exercise real power, or does management run the show?
* What do boards do? Are they effective stewards of an organization's resources? Can they play a meaningful role in setting organisational strategy?
* What effect are regulatory and other changes designed to improve board effectiveness having?
The book will be essential reading for academics and students with an interest in the governance and management of public and nonprofit organizations. It will also be of value to policy-makers and practitioners who wish to gain a deeper understanding of how boards work and what can bedone to improve their performance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134515097
• Artikelnr.: 42641877

Autorenporträt

Chris Cornforth

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - The Changing Context of Governance: Emerging Issues and
Paradoxes 2. Who Governs North East England? A Regional Perspective on
Governance 3. Are Quasi-Governmental Organizations Effective and
Accountable? 4. Service Users and Charity Governance 5. What Influences the
Strategic Contribution of Boards? 6. The Financial Role of Charity Boards
7. The Role of Boards in Small Voluntary Organizations 8. Not So Very
Different: A Comparison of the Roles of Chairs of Governing Bodies and
Managers in Different Sectors 9. What are the Chief Executives'
Expectations and Experiences of their Board? 10. Governing Independent
Museums: How Trustees and Directors Exercise their Powers 11. The Changing
Face of Charity Governance: The Impact of Organizational Size 12. The
Impact of New Governance Structures in the NHS 13. The Changing Face of
Governance in Women's Organizations 14. Summary and Conclusions -
Contextualizing and Managing the Paradoxes of Governance