Nonprofit Organizations 1 Year After the Covid-19 Crisis: Understanding How the French Voluntary Sector is Opening up to Adaptations Related to Societal Orientation

Guillaume Plaisance
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Guillaume Plaisance: IRGO - Institut de Recherche en Gestion des Organisations - UB - Université de Bordeaux - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Bordeaux

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Abstract: Non-profit organizations (NPOs) occupy a crucial place in society. This article studies the determinants of their managerial adaptations in relation to societal orientation, such as a focus on partners, an adaptation of relationships with volunteers, preventing neglect of the beneficiaries and members, and finally a redesign of internal organization. The survey of French NPOs 1 year after Covid-19 shows that boards have often lost their collective effectiveness and that the four adaptations associated with societal orientation were specifically explained by the access to key resources. The results demonstrate the importance of human resource dependency management and inform the decision-making process during the crisis. The contributions focus on the determinants of societal orientation, on the necessary individual and collective mobilization of human resources in non-profit governance and on the importance of a complex and paradoxical approach to decision-making. The original theoretical approach (the stakeholder resource-based theory) also offers perspectives for NPOs, in times of crisis but also in more stable circumstances. © 2023, International Society for Third-Sector Research.

Keywords: Covid-19 crisis; Societal orientation; Adaptation; France; Volonteer dependence; Governance; Stakeholder resource-based theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-11
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Published in Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2023, ⟨10.1007/s11266-023-00618-3⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s11266-023-00618-3

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