scholarly journals Examining social media adoption and change to the stakeholder communication paradigm in not-for-profit sport organizations

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L Naraine ◽  
Milena M Parent
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Organizational Capacity ◽  
Change Resistance ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Organizational Condition ◽  
Internal Forces ◽  
Stakeholder Communication

The purpose of this study was to examine social media adoption within not-for-profit sport organizations to illuminate the impetus for change, the type of change undertaken, and change resistance. Using a contextualist approach depicting the external and internal forces as well as the change process, semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten Canadian national sport organizations (NSO) representing varying degrees of social media presence. The findings suggest that, although social media is espoused as a radical, transformational vehicle, NSOs have only made incremental adjustments to their stakeholder communication and have situated social media within their extant organizational condition due to capacity constraints and resistance from staff and reticent stakeholders. Adopting social media in light of limited organizational capacity thus diminishes the utility of the communications tool. Theoretical and practical implications include how to improve social media-related capacity and the importance of continuing the social media and sport domain’s organizational theory agenda.

scholarly journals An Examination of Not-For-Profit Stakeholder Networks for Relationship Management: A Small-Scale Analysis on Social Media

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. e0163914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Wyllie ◽  
Benjamin Lucas ◽  
Jamie Carlson ◽  
Brent Kitchens ◽  
Ben Kozary ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Relationship Management ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Scale Analysis ◽  
Stakeholder Networks ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit

Nurse perspectives on the psychosocial care of patients with urinary incontinence in home hospice: A qualitative study

2021 ◽  
pp. 026921632110433
Author(s):  
David Russell ◽  
Michelina D Stoddard ◽  
Natalie Morgan ◽  
Margaret V McDonald ◽  
Ritchell Dignam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Urinary Incontinence ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
Psychosocial Care ◽  
Psychosocial Issues ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Psychosocial Benefits

Background: Urinary incontinence is prevalent among patients receiving home hospice and presents multiple care management challenges for nurses and family caregivers. Aim: This study sought to understand how urinary incontinence influences the psychosocial care of patients receiving home hospice and the strategies that nurses employ to maximize patient and family comfort. Design: Qualitative descriptive study using semi-structured interviews. Setting/participants: Nurses employed at a large not-for-profit hospice agency in New York City. Results: Analyses of 32 interviews revealed three primary themes. First, nurses considered urinary incontinence to be associated with multiple psychosocial issues including embarrassment for patients and caregiver burden. Second, nurses described urinary incontinence as a threat to patient dignity and took steps to preserve their continence function. Third, nurses assisted patients and their families to cope with urinary incontinence through normalization, reframing incontinence as part of the disease process, mobilizing caregiving assistance, and encouraging use of continence supplies such as diapers and liners. Conclusion: Urinary incontinence influences the psychosocial care of patients receiving home hospice and nurses employ strategies to maximize patient and family comfort. Additional research is needed to examine the psychosocial benefits of facilitated discussions with patients and family members about incontinence, provision of caregiving support, and distribution of comprehensive incontinence supplies to patients with fewer resources.

Inside the Project Management Institute

2016 ◽  
pp. 1136-1141
Author(s):  
Deborah Walker ◽  
Dave Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Portfolio Management ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Value Added ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Project Management Institute ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Membership Association

PMI is the world's leading not-for-profit professional membership association for the project, program, and portfolio management profession. Now in its 46th year, the association provides global advocacy, collaboration, education, and research to more than 2.9 million professionals working in nearly every country in the world. To better support project practitioners in their role as “change agents,” PMI utilizes popular social media platforms, as well as a robust virtual community. Through social media, PMI creates an environment in which project practitioners create, curate, and share strong value-added content, take part in well-informed discussions, and collaborate to seek effective solutions.

The Effect of Digital Integrated Marketing Communications on Not-for-Profit Sport Consumption Behaviors

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 417-434
Author(s):  
Damien Whitburn ◽  
Adam Karg ◽  
Paul Turner
Keyword(s):  
Public Perception ◽  
Marketing Communications ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Integrated Marketing Communications ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Integrated Marketing ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Sport Consumption ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Raising Awareness

Relationship marketing through digital forms of integrated marketing communications can provide sport organizations with a range of positive outcomes. Given decreasing participation, membership and funding pressures, sport organizations need to engage with current and prospective consumers to alleviate these concerns. Drawing on existing research in the digital communications setting, a framework illustrating the end to end integrated marketing communications function as implemented by governing bodies as a form of not-for-profit sporting organizations is presented and tested. Satisfaction with integrated marketing communications was shown to have a direct effect on relationship quality and behavioral intentions, including revenue raising, increasing participation, raising awareness, and enhancing public perception providing practical and theoretical benefits.

Retirement housing for sale and differences in the decision to purchase that are determined by gender or marital status

2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Livette
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Sheltered Housing ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Decision Making Factors ◽  
Retirement Housing

PurposeVarious studies have shown that nearly three‐quarters of older people living within retirement housing are female single persons, leading some researchers to argue that sheltered housing is essentially a gender or health‐related issue, which can be explained demographically. Possible differences in the buyer behaviour of men and women or single people and married couples are ignored. If differences exist, the approaches adopted by not‐for‐profit agencies to improve the decision‐making process may need to differentiate between the sexes and marital states. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to comment on the differences in the process and contrast some of the results of the research.Design/methodology/approachA sample of about 200 respondents was selected from all purchasers of retirement housing in the West Midlands region of England. Semi‐structured interviews were undertaken with 20 respondents.FindingsThe findings demonstrate that differences exist of less than one‐fifth of the decision‐making factors explored in the study.Originality/valueDifferences can limit the number of suitable options for the purchaser. Therefore, not‐ for‐profit agencies, when providing information and offering advice about housing alternatives, need to appreciate differences between the sexes and marital states in terms of the provision of stairs, the garden, loneliness and problems or difficulties associated with bereavement; the number of builders contacted and schemes known; and the awareness and consideration stages of the decision‐making process relating to a number of housing alternatives.

scholarly journals Parent Enablers of Education Support for Young People with Hearing Impairment in Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 480
Author(s):  
Tehmina Hammad
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Choice ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
The Family ◽  
Education Support ◽  
Local Employment

This article examines the support received by young people with hearing impairment from parent enablers of education in Pakistan. In this ethically designed research, the society’s learning pathways of strong and weak knowledge and education centralised the voice of young people with hearing impairment as a methodology to evaluate society’s influence on parent enablers support, including from for-profit and not-for-profit education. The semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 young people with hearing impairment, 10 each from for-profit and not-for-profit education. The case-by-case analysis of young peoples’ voice showed that in strong pathway, the binding together of family support in education with society formed young peoples’ equal but different identity that shaped an imbalance in gender and social choice of impairment over poverty with restricted translation of for-profit education in employment outside the family. In weak pathway, the family support in education disconnected from society formed young peoples’ same but unequal identity that shaped conflict in gender and social choice of poverty over impairment with limited conversion of not-for-profit education in local employment. In conclusion, alignment of society and parent enablers of education with reference to gender is required for young peoples’ entry in outside and local employment for sustainable development in Pakistan.

Leveraging social media for knowledge management healthcare capability

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Belitzky ◽  
Christian Bach ◽  
Erika Belitzky
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Pediatric Oncology ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Oncology Patients ◽  
Content Type ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit

Purpose This study aims to understand how healthcare social media offer nonmedical psycho-social support for pediatric oncology patients and their care community and how social media can be exploited for healthcare knowledge management. Design/methodology/approach Social media capabilities were identified and categorized based on psycho-social support services for pediatric oncology patients, caregivers and their community of care. Data were collected from 187 service sites representing more than 100 organizations. These broadly defined capabilities in trusted care organizations were analyzed to understand use of social media in providing psycho-social support. Findings Analysis revealed resource guides, stories and in-person support at clinics as the most prevalent forms of technology-guided psycho-social support. Privacy, security and information integrity rose as technical challenges for interactive social media platforms. Medical community trust is inconsistent, leading to immature adoption of critical psycho-social support as a knowledge management source. Findings further indicate the not-for-profit support sector provides robust social media capabilities compared to the healthcare sector. Research limitations/implications Future research may extend to maturing healthcare and not-for-profit sector services and to private sector products such as mobile applications and other technologies. Practical implications Survivor and caregiver quality of life depend on psycho-social support communities and services delivered via social media. Social implications Child protection social implications require significant attention due to sensitivity of security, privacy concerns and longevity of digital footprints for pediatric patients. Originality/value Research demonstrates opportunity for medical provider, healthcare organization, not-for-profit sector, patient and caregiver cooperation using social media. Data indicate healthcare technology systems leveraging social media can extend knowledge management capability beyond organization boundaries.

Inside the Project Management Institute

2016 ◽  
pp. 298-303
Author(s):  
Deborah Walker ◽  
Dave Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Portfolio Management ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Value Added ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Project Management Institute ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Membership Association

PMI is the world's leading not-for-profit professional membership association for the project, program, and portfolio management profession. Now in its 46th year, the association provides global advocacy, collaboration, education, and research to more than 2.9 million professionals working in nearly every country in the world. To better support project practitioners in their role as “change agents,” PMI utilizes popular social media platforms, as well as a robust virtual community. Through social media, PMI creates an environment in which project practitioners create, curate, and share strong value-added content, take part in well-informed discussions, and collaborate to seek effective solutions.

I Stand with Henry

2015 ◽  
pp. 118-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Loutzenhiser ◽  
Robert A. Cropf
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
General Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Middle School Student ◽  
Students With Special Needs ◽  
Self Advocacy ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit

This study investigates a virtual ad-hoc organization known as “I Stand With Henry” (ISWH). It features an individual middle school student with autism practicing self-advocacy. His mission is to support inclusion and get his school district to sanction his ability to be included in the general education setting instead of a separate school for students with special needs. While ISWH is not an official not-for-profit organization, is performs similar functions. Through an in-depth analysis of the ISWH Facebook page, virtual ad-hoc organizations redefine what it means to be a not-for-profit organization. This study analyzes how social media gives voice to the voiceless and how social media equalizes marginalized voices for all students with disabilities to exercise their rights. The chapter employs analyzes conversations within a single case to construct a virtual advocacy model that explains the success of ISWH.

A critical reflection on sustainability within the UK industrial sectors

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suresh Renukappa ◽  
Charles Egbu ◽  
Akintola Akintoye ◽  
Jack Goulding
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Content Type ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Industry Sectors

PurposeIn the early part of the twenty‐first century, the term sustainability has become a buzzword. Although featuring strongly in the popular media, trade, professional and academic journals, the very concept of sustainability is elusive for businesses. There is, however, a little empirical research on the perceptions of the UK industrial sectors on the concept of sustainability – which is the core raison d'être of this paper. The purpose of this paper is to capture the general perceptions of the UK industrial sectors on the concept of sustainability.Design/methodology/approachThe aim of this paper is to capture the general perceptions of the UK industrial sectors on the concept of sustainability using a qualitative approach. Four industry sectors: energy and utility, transportation, construction and not‐for‐profit organisations (NPOs) were considered based on the environmental, social and economic impact on the UK society. Semi‐structured interviews were used to collect industry perception which was then analysed using content analysis for inference and conclusion.FindingsThe data analysis revealed that the perceptions of the UK industrial sectors on the concept of sustainability vary significantly across the four industry sectors. Four core categories were identified: environmental, economic, corporate social responsibility and triple bottom line dimension.Practical implicationsThe paper concludes that the concept of sustainability is multifaceted and diverse. Although the importance of sustainability is broadly acknowledged across the four industry sectors, there is a significant lack of a common and operationalised understanding on the concept of sustainability. Therefore, it is recommended that there is an urgent need to develop and deploy an industry‐wide awareness‐raising programme on the concept of sustainability.Originality/valueThe paper provides a richer insight into the understanding and awareness of the meaning of sustainability at a conceptual level.

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