scholarly journals Performance in the Chaordic Age: By Design or By Destiny?

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1683-1689
Author(s):  
Raymond L ◽  
Forbes Jr
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Structural Form ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
The Future ◽  
Governmental Institutions

This paper discusses the challenge of performance in an age characterized by high levels of both organizational and environmental uncertainty. Today, business, not-for-profit, and governmental institutions all find themselves besieged by difficult-to-predict periods of disorder and relative certitude. A new structural form, called the chaordic organization, has arisen as one means of operating in such a turbulent and indeterminate environment. This article will consider the chaos-certainty question, examine the concepts of performance and potential, deliberate whether performance can be influenced by calculated design measures, and look at current thinking related to motivation and its relationship to organizational performance.  Additionally, a model of performance efficacy will be introduced, lessons learned provided, implications for the future presented, and a look offered at what might come next.

On the Association between Donor-Imposed Financial Inflexibility and Future Donations to Charitable Organizations

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishnamurthy Surysekar ◽  
Elizabeth H. Turner ◽  
Clark M. Wheatley
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Managerial Discretion ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Charitable Organizations ◽  
Financial Flexibility ◽  
Negative Relation ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACT We address the impact of financial flexibility on organizational performance in a not-for-profit (NFP) setting. Specifically, we examine the link between donor-imposed financial inflexibility and subsequent donations. Donors sometimes impose restrictions on NFP use of the donated resources. These restrictions arise because of donors' preferences regarding how the assets are used, or as a mechanism for donors to monitor the actions of NFP management. Restricted donations cause financial inflexibility and limit managerial discretion. We examine the costs and benefits of restricting managerial discretion and find a negative relation between future donations and high levels of donor restriction. Specifically, we empirically demonstrate that when restricted assets comprise a high percentage of total assets, additional increases in restricted assets are associated with an overall reduction in future donations.

scholarly journals Lessons learned from urgent computing in Europe: Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (46) ◽  
pp. e2024891118
Author(s):  
Núria López ◽  
Luigi Del Debbio ◽  
Marc Baaden ◽  
Matej Praprotnik ◽  
Laura Grigori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Computer Simulations ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
The World ◽  
Advanced Computing ◽  
Urgent Computing

PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), an international not-for-profit association that brings together the five largest European supercomputing centers and involves 26 European countries, has allocated more than half a billion core hours to computer simulations to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Alongside experiments, these simulations are a pillar of research to assess the risks of different scenarios and investigate mitigation strategies. While the world deals with the subsequent waves of the pandemic, we present a reflection on the use of urgent supercomputing for global societal challenges and crisis management.

scholarly journals Does the GAAP-shoe fit not-for-profit organisations or is it causing them blisters?

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cobus Rossouw
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
International Capital ◽  
International Capital Markets ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Financial Reporting Standards ◽  
Accounting Practice ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Governmental Institutions

Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (GAAP), which comprises International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs), has been designed to apply to the general purpose financial statements of all profit-oriented entities, and especially those competing in the international capital markets. On the other hand, not-for-profit organisations exhibit unique characteristics, different from businesses. The nature of not-for-profit organizations means that GAAP (IFRS) is not applicable to them. Small and medium entities (SMEs) and governmental institutions also exhibit unique characteristics and specific accounting standards were developed to meet their specific needs. In South Africa there are no accounting standards that specifically apply to not-for-profit organisations and that take their specific reporting needs into account. This article examines whether GAAP is applicable to not-for-profit organisations, and whether its application adds value to these organisations. The article focuses on the nature of not-for-profit organisations and its impact on accounting standards, discusses the applicability of GAAP and highlights some problems experienced when applying GAAP.

scholarly journals Comparing The Affects Of Management Practices On Organizational Performance Between For-Profit And Not-For-Profit Corporations In Southeast Wisconsin

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary F. Keller
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Ownership Type ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Factors Of Production ◽  
Five Practices ◽  
Not For Profit Organizations ◽  
For Profit Organizations

The need to demonstrate the effectiveness of any business or organization worthy of attracting resources and transforming them into valued products/services is an entitys primary mission. A variety of methods have evolved over time to measure a for-profit enterprises performance. Economists have typically studied how well a firm manages the factors of production under its control while accountants and financial analysts scrutinize a variety of analytical tests to determine current and future performance. Not-for-profit organizations have adopted many of the commercial sectors economic and accounting/financial techniques to gauge their performance. However, an issue that plagues the analysis of for-profit and not-for-profit businesses is the effect that management has on an enterprises performance. While economists and accountants can account for nearly all of the factors of production, the discipline cannot calculate the effect of management on agency performance. Considering the roles and economic impact that both for-profit and increasingly not-for-profit organizations/non-governmental organizations (NPO or NGO) it is vital to assess how these organizations are managed and what if any effect management practices have on their organizational performance. The purpose of this quantitative research investigation was to study the affect of 18 management practices defined as operations (three practices), monitoring (five practices), targets (five practices), and incentives (five practices) (Bloom & Van Reenen, 2007, pp. 1393 - 1397) had on the performance of for-profit firms and NPOs in southeast, Wisconsin. The basis of this research project was derived from two studies. One study (Keller, 2009) was conducted on for-profit corporations in late 2008 and the second that Keller conducted on NPOs in 2010. The examination revealed that management practices did not have a statistically significant impact on the economic performance of for-profit firms (with the exception of one ownership type) and a strongly significant influence on not-for-profit organizations.

scholarly journals “Thinking outside the Box”: Social Innovations Emerging from Academic Nursing-Community Partnerships

2022 ◽  
pp. 245-272
Author(s):  
Cheryl Zlotnick ◽  
Mary McDonnell-Naughton
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
The World

AbstractNurses comprise the largest group of healthcare workers in the world. Increasingly, nurses in higher education institutions are collaborating with not-for-profit and community-based organisations to devise programs, projects and interventions that benefit both their students’ education and individuals in the community. This chapter describes an integrative review of these academic nursing-community partnerships, focusing on the nurses’ roles, the students’ role and the lessons learned from the partnership strategies that blend the expertise of the community members and nurses in higher education.

Preparing Students for Applied Work In and Outside Academia: Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Rewards

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
Nancy Romero-Daza ◽  
David Himmelgreen
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Field School ◽  
Ethics Of Research ◽  
Training Opportunities

Abstract This article describes a few of the strategies that have proven useful in the training of applied anthropology students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in preparation for careers in and outside of academia. Reflecting on our experiences as professors in one of the premier applied anthropology programs in the nation, we highlight our efforts to provide solid training through (1) strategies to enhance professionalization skills for both academic and non-academic work, (2) the offering of an international and interdisciplinary field school, (3) the establishment of domestic training opportunities that involve partnerships with not-for-profit organizations as well as with private sector agencies, and (4) the offering of curricula that emphasize the ethics of research and practice and that prepare future instructors for the teaching of applied anthropology.

A Theatre of Pre-Depression: Economics and Apathy in New York

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (32) ◽  
pp. 313-320
Author(s):  
Glenn Loney
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Peter Pan ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Single Person ◽  
The Future ◽  
Special Concern ◽  
The Many

In an article in NTQ22 (May 1990), Glenn Loney clarified, with special concern for a British readership, the many ‘Factors in the Broadway Equation’. In NTQ 30 (May 1992), he took a closer look at the productions of the 1990–91 season, with its glut of musicals, from the lavish to the just plain lousy, economic ‘single-person shows’ – and the sometimes more challenging products of the off-Broadway and not-for-profit sectors. Here, he continues to trace the long decline of the ‘fabulous invalid’ through the season of 1991–92 – a season overshadowed by the death of Joe Papp, the mourning for a great showman mixed with concern for the future of his Public Theatre enterprises. The paucity of productions on Broadway – where, while one show could lose its backers four million dollars overnight, Peter Pan took American audiences happily back to the traditions of English pantomime – continued to contrast with signs of life elsewhere, and new productions marked milestone-anniversaries for La Mama and the Manhattan Theatre Club. Glenn Loney, is a widely published theatre writer and teacher based in New York.

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