Donor relationship management practices in the South African non-profit sector

Knowledge Management and the Non-Profit Sector

Research and practice over the last twenty some years has increasingly formalized knowledge management (hereafter “KM”) as both an accepted business operating protocol and an academic discipline in its own right (Wiig, 2003; Schwartz, 2005; Cohen, 2006). But, except for the occasional enlightened organization, KM inquiry and practice has not been found among non-profit enterprises; as one indic...

The Impact of Management Control Systems on Contemporary Management Accounting Practices in the Public Sector

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of the interactive and diagnostic use of management control systems on the adoption and success of contemporary management accounting practices in the public sector. Contemporary management accounting practices includes: benchmarking, activity-based costing, the balanced scorecard, value chain analysis, total quality management, key perform...

Internet diffusion in the non profit sector in Italy

This paper analyzes Internet diffusion among organizations, based on daily observation of the registration of second level domain names under the “.it” ccTLD. In particular, we analyzed domains registered in the nonprofit sector. The penetration rate in the relevant population of potential users is computed at highly separated geographical levels (regions). A concentration analysis was carried ...

Knowledge management in the not-for-profit sector

Innovative IC Framework in the Non-Profit Sector

The importance of intellectual capital in the non-profit sector generates the need to measure its role in the value creation process. The purpose of the paper is to study the application of intellectual capital within the non-profit sector, by turning attention to resources such as: knowledge, experience, and skills. Organizations, which are able to increase the knowledge of their staff and tra...