Dealing With Paradoxes, Manufacturing Governance: Organizational Change in European Third-Sector Organizations

Francesca Petrella (francesca.petrella@univ-amu.fr), Ruth Simsa, Ulla Pape, Joachim Benedikt Pahl, Taco Brandsen, Nadine Richez-Battesti (nrichezbattesti@wanadoo.fr) and Annette Zimmer
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Francesca Petrella: LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, AMU - Aix Marseille Université
Ruth Simsa: Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU - Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien [Austria]
Ulla Pape: Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science - Freie Universität Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin
Taco Brandsen: Radboud University [Nijmegen]
Nadine Richez-Battesti: LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, AMU - Aix Marseille Université
Annette Zimmer: WWU - Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster = University of Münster

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Abstract: Third sector organizations (TSOs) in Europe have been confronted with profound changes to their regulatory and societal environments. By applying the concepts of "organizational paradoxes" and "governance", we analyze how TSOs have adjusted their governance as a response to these environmental challenges. Based on organizational case studies in France, Germany, and the Netherlands, we argue that TSOs have found multiple ways to address tensions at the organizational level, e.g. by mobilizing and combining resources, re-arranging their organizational governance and by adopting new legal forms. These changes have resulted in hybridization and increased organizational complexity that might translate into the emergence of new paradoxes at the organizational level. Therefore, dealing with paradoxes constitutes an ongoing process for TSOs that goes beyond incremental adjustments.

Keywords: Third sector organizations; organizational paradoxes; governance; organizational changes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-04
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Published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2021, ⟨10.1177/08997640211005849⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/08997640211005849

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