Nonprofit Trusteeship in Different Contexts
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Critical interest in the characteristics, make-up and management of nonprofit organizations has seldom been higher. As this impetus grows, this important book draws on advances in neo-institutional organizational theory to explore the environmental and contextual influences on the structure and composition of boards of nonprofit organizations. Using information theoretic modelling, the book studies the interactions of time, place and organizational types (including faith affiliation) on US nonprofit boards, using unique quantitative data, collected from over 300 prestigious nonprofit organizations in a range of major US cities. With examples drawn from a variety of nonprofit sectors, including hospitals, museums, orchestras, universities, family services and community foundations, the book examines how boards evolve over time, in often unexpected ways; and in ways which reflect the regional, industrial and religious differences in the same period. Detailing the important implications for theory, practice and policy, this is the first book-length treatment of this topic to feature such a range of industries, geographic areas, and time frames. It offers a refreshing narrative and scientific approach; new and comprehensive subject matter; and a sweeping new time frame for literature in the field.'...brings research on nonprofit governance into the 21st century, in two ways. First, Rikki Abzug and Jeffrey Simonoff provide theoretical integration of work on nonprofit trustees into the larger field of corporate governance and organization theory...Second, the authors draw on a new data set of unprecedented size and scope to answer the critical question, "Who Governs?," in six major nonprofit industries...Theirs is a seminal study that sets a new standard for scholarship on nonprofit governance...' Professor Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University, USA. 'This is a comprehensive study of the nonprofit governance issue. Using sophisticated quantitative analyses, Abzug and Simonoff provide a provocative analysis of how boards have changed over a 60 year period. This is a must read for students of nonprofit governance and American studies. It also provides a benchmark for nonprofit practitioners and trustees.' Joseph Glaskiewicz, University of Arizona, USA. 'This book breaks important ground in refining research on trusteeship in nonprofit organizations and is a must read for scholars in the fields of nonprofit studies and governance. The book's title says it all - one cannot understand critical characteristics of nonprofit boards without carefully examining contextual variables, such as founding period, location, and industry. For those of us who have long argued that "no one size fits all" in terms of nonprofit boards, this book finally gives solid empirical evidence that context matters!' Melissa Middleton Stone, Director, Center for Leadership of Nonprofits, Philanthropy, and the Public Sector and the Gross Family Professor of Nonprofit Management, University of Minnesota, USA '...there are important issues raised, most particularly from an American context with respect to the characterisitics, make up and management of non profit organisations...this is a highly specialised book and certainly, from an academic perspective, is a significant contribution to a relatively sparse literature on the topic.' Corporate Citizen