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Smart Government: Was macht eine smarte Verwaltung aus? Eine Literaturanalyse

open access: yesYearbook of Swiss Administrative Sciences, 2017
The following article is a brief summary of the international scientific discussion on smart government from 2012 to 2017. The authors scrutinise theoretical aspects of the concept and present examples of their application.
Christoph Breier   +2 more
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Quality Assurance Translated? Comparing Nonprofit Evaluation Practices in Germany and the United States

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 2023
This article presents findings from a study of management practice in youth career assistance nonprofits in Germany and the United States, focusing on the area of evaluation.
Karl Urban
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Volunteer omnichannel behavior in nonprofit organizations: Key antecedents and implications for management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Financiado para a publicación en acceso aberto: Universidade da Coruña/CISUG[Abstract] The purpose of this research consists of identifying the antecedents that may influence the adoption of omnichannel behavior by volunteers.
Rey-García, Marta   +7 more
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Social Impact Bonds and the Perils of Aligned Interests

open access: yesAdministrative Sciences, 2017
Social impact bonds (SIBs) have been welcomed enthusiastically as a new funding tool for social innovation, yet also condemned as an instrument that neglects beneficiaries’ and taxpayers’ interests, opening profit opportunities in the field of social ...
Florentine Maier, Michael Meyer
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Getting Past “Purposeful”: Exploring Dimensionality in Nonprofit Executive Performance Information Use

open access: yesJournal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 2020
Although performance information use (PIU) among public managers is a growing and increasingly relevant research area, the existing evidence base has two significant limitations for those interested in its application to nonprofit executives.
Clare FitzGerald
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The Role of Relationally Embedded Network Ties in Resource Acquisition of British Nonprofit Organizations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
As nonprofit and charity organizations face increasing competition, there have been growing interests in how nonprofit organizations conduct commercial activities to raise funds as well as grow their business.
Chih-Yao Gordon Liu   +7 more
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Risk Categories and Risk Management Processes in Nonprofit Organizations

open access: yesFoundations of Management, 2016
The article addresses risk management in nonprofit organizations. This topical issue appears not to have been adequately studied by researchers to date. There are several questions the author of this paper attempts to answer: What are the risk categories
Domański Jarosław
doaj   +1 more source

Nonprofit Economic Development Organizations and the Institutional Arrangement of Local Economic Development

open access: yesJournal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 2018
In the United States, local economic development is increasingly being managed by nonprofit organizations. However, the institutional arrangement of local economic development is an understudied topic in the scholarly literature on nonprofit management ...
William Hatcher, Augustine Hammond
doaj   +1 more source

Classification of Program Activities: How Nonprofits Create Social Value

open access: yesAdministrative Sciences, 2017
This paper defines and describes a framework to classify program activities utilized by nonprofit organizations to achieve public benefit objectives.
William Brown
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Nonprofits as a Resilient Sector: Implications for Public Policy

open access: yesNonprofit Policy Forum, 2022
Lester Salamon first characterized nonprofits in the United States as “the resilient sector” in 2003. He based this characterization on the sector’s growth, its ability to adapt to new economic and political conditions over time and its increasingly ...
Young Dennis R.
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