Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Texas at Arlington, 2008.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--York University, 2000. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 444-465). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ56224

Mergers and acquisitions have steadily emerged as an important topic within the nonprofit sector over the past twenty years. Using lessons and conceptual frameworks from the nonprofit and private sectors, this report explores preconditions conducive to M&A activity (including funding strain, subsector disaggregation, and executive director departure) as well as common challenges facing the organizations that undertake them. A case study of the imminent merger between two SAT preparatory nonprofits is presented to provide context for a successful M&A approach. This report concludes that organizations can benefit by simply exploring potential strategic partnerships, regardless of the end decision of whether or not to fully merge. / text

This project examines the impact on a Christian mission organisation of the decision to accept government funding and add an explicit international development focus to its work. During the 1980s the Anglican Board of Mission (ABM), the national mission agency of the Anglican Church of Australia, entered into a contractual relationship with the Australian Government which ultimately led to accreditation as a development agency and involvement with the Australian international development sector. This process has significantly influenced ABM both structurally and philosophically, bringing a creative tension within the organisation between two related but distinct approaches to Christian witness. A cooperative inquiry method was chosen with the aim of fostering organisational learning within ABM. The researcher became a participant in a team of five which conducted three cycles of inquiry over a year. This team of staff members and the researcher explored the influence of the growing relationship with government on their faith-based NGO and its implications within the context of Christian mission. Notions of intentionality, accountability and legitimacy within the relationships with their stakeholders emerged as significant foundations for the work of the organisation. The cycles of inquiry generated a body of co-created knowledge which, it is argued, have pointed the way to managing ABM???s dual roles. Its multiple accountabilities - to government, to its Anglican constituency, and to overseas church partners - are understood as offering a framework through which it can continually assess its organisational integrity and fidelity to its value base. Articulating intentionality of purpose and a clear theological understanding of mission and development were identified as crucial if ABM is to maintain its legitimacy as derived from the mandate of the Anglican Church to undertake Christian mission and development on its behalf. ???Making space to breathe??? became a metaphor to describe the task of the organisation in creating both a reflective space which opens possibilities for transformed praxis, and a liminal space between the two Programs of the organisation in which a unifying philosophical ground can be discovered.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Auburn University, 2007. / Abstract. Vita. Includes survey instrument. Includes bibliographic references (ℓ. 114-137)

Zugl.: Hamburg, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2006

Zugl.: München, Fachhochsch., Hausarbeit, 2004

Zugl.: Witten, Herdecke, Univ., Diplomarbeit, 2006 u.d.T.: Hübner, Jörg: Management in Nonprofit-Organisationen

Universiẗat, Diss.--Jena, 2008.

Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University (Canada), 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.