Exploring Reasons for the Resistance to Sustainable Management within Non-Profit Organizations
Loading...
Files
[Exploring Reasons for the Resistance to Sustainable Management within Non-Profit Organizations]
Author (Corporation)
Publication date
26.05.2014
Typ of student thesis
Course of study
Collections
Type
01A - Journal article
Editors
Editor (Corporation)
Supervisor
Parent work
Sustainability
Special issue
DOI of the original publication
Link
Series
Series number
Volume
6
Issue / Number
6
Pages / Duration
3252-3270
Patent number
Publisher / Publishing institution
MDPI
Place of publication / Event location
Edition
Version
Programming language
Assignee
Practice partner / Client
Abstract
The numerous empirical and conceptual studies that have been conducted over recent years concerning the social responsibility of enterprises and their contributions towards sustainable development have given very little consideration to non-profit organizations (NPOs). This is surprising, because NPOs are confronted with very similar challenges to profit-orientated enterprises regarding their evolution into sustainable organizations. This paper is a preliminary conceptual study and explores the question of why the corporate social responsibility, or corporate sustainability, of NPOs has to date been both neglected by research establishments and also extensively ignored by the NPOs during their day-to-day practical management. The example of church and pastoral institutions in Germany is used to demonstrate the extent to which they take account of ecological and social aspects in their management systems and processes and, thus, implement sustainable management within their day-to-day practice. The paper concludes with some proposals for further empirical and conceptual research projects, which are designed to analyze developments within NPOs with relation to the integration of sustainability into their management systems and processes.
Keywords
Keywords: corporate responsibility, corporate sustainability, sustainable management, non-profit organizations, non-profit management
Event
Exhibition start date
Exhibition end date
Conference start date
Conference end date
Date of the last check
ISBN
ISSN
2071-1050
Language
English
Created during FHNW affiliation
Yes
Strategic action fields FHNW
Publication status
Published
Review
Peer review of the complete publication
Open access category
License
Citation
Daub, C.-H., Scherrer, Y. M., & Verkuil, A. H. (2014). Exploring Reasons for the Resistance to Sustainable Management within Non-Profit Organizations. Sustainability, 6(6), 3252–3270. https://doi.org/10.3390/su6063252