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Succession Planning Strategies To Ensure Leadership Continuity In Nonprofit Organizations, Simon Mukhama
Succession Planning Strategies To Ensure Leadership Continuity In Nonprofit Organizations, Simon Mukhama
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Leaders who lack succession planning strategies have the potential for adverse business outcomes. CEOs, senior leaders, and key decision makers in nonprofit organizations are concerned with business continuity because critical leadership strategies are essential for the strategic replacement of key personnel. Grounded in the resource-based view theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore succession planning strategies used in nonprofit organizations to ensure business continuity whenever leaders change. The participants were five leaders from five nonprofit organizations who used succession planning strategies for business continuity whenever leaders changed. Data were collected using semistructured interviews and a …
Role Of Stand-Alone Business Entities In Sustaining Newly Established Nonprofit Organizations, Sharif S. Shamroukh
Role Of Stand-Alone Business Entities In Sustaining Newly Established Nonprofit Organizations, Sharif S. Shamroukh
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Thousands of newly established nonprofit organizations (NPOs) with long-lasting and needed missions disappear annually, which negatively impacts the nonprofit sector in general and the potential recipients of the discontinued NPOs' services. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the possible influence that the presence of a strategic resource development plan and the establishment of a stand-alone business entity have on the persistence of newly established NPOs that have long-lasting and needed missions in the United States within the context of the theoretical framework resource dependence theory. Research questions focused on the role of commercial activities, particularly the stand-alone …