Nonprofit mission statement focus and financial performance
| العنوان: | Nonprofit mission statement focus and financial performance |
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| المؤلفون: | Gary R. Kirk, Shabnam Beth Nolan |
| المصدر: | Nonprofit Management and Leadership. 20:473-490 |
| بيانات النشر: | Wiley, 2010. |
| سنة النشر: | 2010 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Statement (computer science), Scope (project management), business.industry, Overhead (business), Strategy and Management, Presumption, Exploratory research, Business, Mission statement, Public relations, Organizational performance, Focus (linguistics) |
| الوصف: | Mission statements have been adopted nearly universally in nonprofit organizations. Their ubiquity is based on a presumption that a well-designed mission statement is linked to better organizational performance because it provides a framework for decision making, influence over staff and volunteer motivation, and a mechanism for signaling organizational legitimacy to stakeholders. Despite collective confidence in mission statement utility, the relationship between mission statements and performance has received minimal attention. In this exploratory study we measured several attributes of mission statements in women’s rights nonprofit organizations, with particular attention to the degree to which the statement focuses on organizational purpose and the relationship between focus and several measures of organization financial performance. The findings indicated that mission statements with a more focused geographic scope were associated with lower overhead ratios. In contrast, mission statements that identified more target client groups were associated with larger one-year increases in contribution. Despite the statistical significance, the relationships were weak, calling into question common assumptions about the importance of the mission statement to a nonprofit organization. |
| تدمد: | 1542-7854 1048-6682 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::198df74acac63bd75364af68405acd31 https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.20006 |
| حقوق: | CLOSED |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........198df74acac63bd75364af68405acd31 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15427854 10486682 |
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