Anti-Consultative Trends in Nonprofit Governance

Nonprofit Governance, Organizational Purposiveness and Design

Trends in Corporate Governance

The popular press and scholarly studies have noted a number of trends in corporate governance. This paper addresses, from a theoretical perspective, whether these trends are linked. And, if so, how? The paper finds that a trend toward greater board diligence will lead, sometimes through subtle or indirect mechanisms, to trends toward more external candidates becoming ceo, shorter tenures for ce...

Nonprofit Boards in Australia: a distinctive governance approach

This article reports the findings into patterns of governance on nonprofit boards in Australia. The research surveys 118 boards, upon which serve a total of 1405 directors. The findings indicate that nonprofit boards can mimic some aspects of a shareholder approach to governance. But nonprofit boards, in the main, indicate priorities and activities of a stakeholder approach to governance. The f...

Nonprofit Governance and Accountability by Lester M . Salamon and Stephanie

Biobank governance: trends and perspectives.

Biobanks are a challenge and topic for governance. Today, biobanks are identified as a biomedical scientific/infrastructural development that warrants a political/legal/ethical reaction with the goal to integrate biobanks into the preexisting fabric of regulation, medicine, law and society. Biobank governance is always a response to sociocultural challenges and requires the building of trust, a...