Non-Profit Governance: Twelve Frameworks for Organisations and Research

Non-profit Governance offers 12 perspectives and analytical frameworks to facilitate the development of governance in non-profit organisations (NPOs). In this sector, governance is all the more important because it is often voluntary. Organisations therefore need to be supported in their management, accountability, and strategy. International standards (in particular ISO 37000:2021, dedicated to the governance of organisations) propose key principles to ensure value creation around stakeholder engagement, leadership, risk governance, social responsibility, and organisational sustainability. This book proposes to explore and adapt these principles to the non-profit sector. To do this, the book focuses on four facets of governance: the controls it puts in place, the stakeholders it must listen to and manage, the performance it must monitor, and, finally, the people it must lead and mobilise. The book also highlights the interest of governance mechanisms and processes in developing effective performance, ethics in NPOs and responsible management. Each chapter therefore takes one or more of the principles of ISO 37000:2021 in the non-profit context and builds an analytical framework around them. These 12 frameworks can thus be used by the organisations themselves to develop their governance practices and by researchers who will find original approaches to incorporate into their studies.

Guillaume Plaisance is an Associate Professor at the IAE - Bordeaux University School of Management and is the deputy-head of the CSR axis of research in the Research Institute in Management Science (Bordeaux, France). He is the head of master’s program dedicated to the management of the social responsibility of organisations. He conducted a PhD thesis linking non-profit governance and performance management. His research themes focus on the governance and management of non-profit organisations and the social and societal responsibility of organisations. He is the Vice-president of Recherches & Solidarités, an NPO composed of professional and scientific experts who study the third sector. He is one of the Associate Editors of the Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing.

Anne Goujon Belghit is HDR Associate Professor at the University of Bordeaux, France. She is a member of IRGO laboratory research. Her academic research concerns 4 specific fields: ethical decision-making, the relationship to employment, the Territorial Social Responsibility (TSR) and Management in Non-profit organisations. She teaches organizational behaviour, human resource management, career management, Corporate Social Responsibility, TSR and Social and Sustainable Economy (SSE) issues. She is in charge of the chair of human capital of Bordeaux and she is editor for the academic journal VSE (Vie & Sciences de l’Entreprise).