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Think Global, Act Local? Fortune 500 Business Strategies for Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11)

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of business towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been well established. However, SDG contextualization continues to pose a conundrum, particularly for firms operating in multiple contexts. This becomes even more problematic in the case of SDG 11, the only goal in the sustainable development agenda directly
Andreas Georgiou
wiley   +1 more source

Editor's Note

open access: yesNonprofit Policy Forum, 2011
Our second issue clearly illuminates the international and far ranging scope of nonprofit-related policy issues worldwide. Topics include, micro finance associations in developing countries, recent trends in nonprofit-government relations, an examination
Young Dennis R
doaj   +1 more source

NP2020: Issues and Answers from the Next Generation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
A report of a three-day conference on nonprofit leadership, held in Grand Rapids, MI in July 2007, identified that there is a leadership deficit, mentoring is needed for emerging leaders, structural challenges create barriers to nonprofit careers, and ...
Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy
core   +2 more sources

How Supply Networks Influence Sustainable Innovation: Evidence From Ghana's Public Works Procurement

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent environmental and sustainability standards in procurement increase short‐term production and operational costs to suppliers, which are often recouped by charging price premiums for innovative solutions. However, public buyers are less likely to pay such price premiums, resulting in a disincentive among suppliers to bid for innovation ...
Peter Adjei‐Bamfo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of Key Topics in the Research on Nonpro t Organizations: From Eciency to Hybrids

open access: yesLittera Scripta, 2013
Research in the nonprofit sector is a relatively young discipline. Nonetheless, a number of research schools of thought and movements have formed over several decades, several outstanding research institutions have come into existence, and many books ...
Vladimír Hyánek
doaj  

Mapping Ohio's Compassion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This report gives an overview of the state of the nonprofit sector in ...
Amy L. Sherman   +3 more
core  

Giving or Greening? Stakeholder Dynamics and Ex‐Military Executives

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms increasingly face competing demands from different stakeholder groups, yet little is known about how these demands interact and generate strategic trade‐offs. Drawing on stakeholder theory and upper echelons theory, we investigate whether an overemphasis on philanthropic initiatives can detract from investments in green innovation, and ...
Hyeyoun Park   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Technology’s Role in the Nonprofit Sector

open access: yesColumbia Social Work Review, 2019
Increasing technology uptake in the nonprofit sector will allow nonprofit organizations and social workers to provide more effective services through improved work processes.
Brianna Boles
doaj  

Distinguishing the Social Sector: A Buffalo-Niagara Labor Market Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The study focuses on the two largest parts of Buffalo-Niagara’s social sector: nonprofit and government ...
Ksiazek, Kristin   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Toward an SDG‐Based Typology for US Nonprofits

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an emerging institutional logic that nonprofits must navigate alongside existing sector‐specific frameworks. Drawing on institutional logics and organizational hybridity theories, we examine how nonprofits incorporate SDGs into their missions and what this reveals about managing institutional ...
Dominik S. Meier, Elizabeth Searing
wiley   +1 more source

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