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Boards play a crucial role in ensuring that public and nonprofit publicly accountable and perform well. Following various failures and scandals they face increasing scrutiny, pressure and expectations. Serious questions have been raised about the ability of boards to govern effectively.
Such concerns have stimulated a renewed interest in organizational governance, and a growing literature on the subject. Much of the current literature, however, has been criticized for underestimating the constraints and conflictions demands that boards face and recommending unrealistic solutions. There have been relatively few detailed empirical studies of what boards do in practice. This book fills that gap by bringing together analyses based upon some of the best recent empirical studies of public and non-profit governance in the UK.
Using a new theoretical framework that highlights the paradoxical nature of governance the book throws light on the questions at the heart of recent debates about nonprofit boards:
* Are boards publicly accountable or is there a democratic deficit?
* Are boards able to exercise real power, or does management run the show?
* What do boards do? Are they effective stewards of an organization's resources? Can they play a meaningful role in setting organisational strategy?
* What effect are regulatory and other changes designed to improve board effectiveness having?
The book will be essential reading for academics and students with an interest in the governance and management of public and nonprofit organizations. It will also be of value to policy-makers and practitioners whowish to gain a deeper understanding of how boards work and what can be done to improve their performance.
Boards play a crucial role in ensuring that public and nonprofit publicly accountable and perform well. Following various failures and scandals they face increasing scrutiny, pressure and expectations. Serious questions have been raised about the ability of boards to govern effectively.
Such concerns have stimulated a renewed interest in organizational governance, and a growing literature on the subject. Much of the current literature, however, has been criticized for underestimating the constraints and conflictions demands that boards face and recommending unrealistic solutions. There have been relatively few detailed empirical studies of what boards do in practice. This book fills that gap by bringing together analyses based upon some of the best recent empirical studies of public and non-profit governance in the UK.
Using a new theoretical framework that highlights the paradoxical nature of governance the book throws light on the questions at the heart of recent debates about nonprofit boards:
* Are boards publicly accountable or is there a democratic deficit?
* Are boards able to exercise real power, or does management run the show?
* What do boards do? Are they effective stewards of an organization's resources? Can they play a meaningful role in setting organisational strategy?
* What effect are regulatory and other changes designed to improve board effectiveness having?
The book will be essential reading for academics and students with an interest in the governance and management of public and nonprofit organizations. It will also be of value to policy-makers and practitioners whowish to gain a deeper understanding of how boards work and what can be done to improve their performance.
1. Introduction - The Changing Context of Governance: Emerging Issues and Paradoxes2. Who Governs North East England? A Regional Perspective on Governance3. Are Quasi-Governmental Organizations Effective and Accountable?4. Service Users and Charity Governance5. What Influences the Strategic Contribution of Boards?6. The Financial Role of Charity Boards7. The Role of Boards in Small Voluntary Organizations8. Not So Very Different: A Comparison of the Roles of Chairs of Governing Bodies and Managers in Different Sectors9. What are the Chief Executives' Expectations and Experiences of their Board?10. Governing Independent Museums: How Trustees and Directors Exercise their Powers11. The Changing Face of Charity Governance: The Impact of Organizational Size12. The Impact of New Governance Structures in the NHS13. The Changing Face of Governance in Women's Organizations14. Summary and Conclusions - Contextualizing and Managing the Paradoxes of Governance
Chris Cornforth
'Anyone interested in understanding more about the problems facing
boards should read this book' - Andrew Brown, deputy chair of
Charity Trustee Networks.
'...it is likely to make the reader re-examine some funadamental
assumptions about corporate governance...' - Corporate Governance,
Paddy FitzGerald
'In summary, this book is a gem that goes behind the scenes of
board governance. As a result, it is a definite must for those
serving on boards, and seeking insight into boards and how to
improve them. It adds substantially to the literature on the
governance of public and nonprofit organizations; both academics
and practitioners would gain much by reading this well-edited
text.' - Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit
Organizations, Vol. 14, No. 3, September 2003 - Dean F. Eitel,
DePaul University, USA
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