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Boards of Directors in Nonprofit Organizations: Do They Follow a Life-Cycle Model?

• Murray, Vic
• Bradshaw, Pat
• Wolpin, Jacob
• Dart, Ray

Abstract

In this study the authors used data from a survey of Canadian nonprofit organizations to empirically test hypotheses derived from models of nonprofit board "life cycles." The authors sug¬gest that while formal structural elements of board behavior change in the manner suggested by life-cycle models, the more enacted or behavioral aspects of nonprofit boards do not. The data further suggest caution in the use of life-cycle or age-dependent models to either explain or guide nonprofit board behavior.

Journal

Nonprofit Management and Leadership

(1996)
vol6 no4 pages367

Categories

1. Governance  

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