This volume accesses governance in public and non-profit organizations. Building on and challenging recent research in this area, this volume critically examines the contextual, behavioural and historical factors of governance.
Managing Paradoxes in Governance – Tensions in the Emergence of a New Board.Exploring Antecedents and Impact of Board Effectiveness in Clean-Tech Enterprises.Thou Shall Not Meddle: Exploring Autonomy in the Board-Executive Director Relationship.Who Cares about Public Interests? A Case-Based Analysis of the Role of Boards in Dutch Semipublic Organizations.Defining Hybridity and Hybrid Contingencies in Public Organizations: An Alternative Conceptual Model.Political Pressures: Too Large, Too Small, or Just Right?.An Anatomy of Governance Failures in Municipal Bankruptcy.Leadership in Local Government Organizations in Lithuania and Germany.Participatory Governance in the Networks of Stakeholders: Expression of Collective Identity.Governance Learning: Building a Network around Managerial Innovations.About the Authors.Copyright page.Contingency, Behavioural and Evolutionary Perspectives on Public and Non-profit Governance.List of Contributors.Studies in Public and Non-Profit Governance.Contingency, Behavioural and Evolutionary Perspectives on Public and Nonprofit Governance.Introduction.