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An Investigation of Innovation in Nonprofit Organizations: The Role of Organizational Mission
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Nonprofit organizations are experiencing increasing pressures to be more business-like and to focus on financial outcomes for sustainability and growth. There have been questions whether this attention on performance might come at the cost of serving an organization's mission. The research presented here indicates that a nonprofit organization's mission can facilitate innovation, which has been shown to be a key mediating step in achieving superior organizational performance. Two studies were conducted among nonprofit hospitals in the United States to investigate the role of the nonprofit organization's mission in the innovation process. The findings indicate that a clear, motivating organizational mission helps an organization to focus its attention on those innovations that will most likely support the accomplishment of that mission. Such a mission also creates a climate in which innovations are given a fair chance to succeed. As a result, firms with clear, motivating missions tend to be more innovative.
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“Finally, one last approach, a result of increased marketization of the non-profit sector, focuses on the implementation of business principles in non-profits [76]. To survive, non-profits are becoming more entrepreneurial [77], become more adept with innovative practices and improve attitude toward change [53], or begin redefining their mission [78,79]. This provided the rationale for the second”
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“Many studies have stated that the clarity of an organizational goal or members' perception of an organizational goal has a positive effect on innovative behavior [34,44,[88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95].”
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“First, studies analyzing the relationship between change management factors and innovative behavior have indicated that change management factors have a positive effect on innovative behavior [36,44,56,95,98-101,110,130-132,150].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- McDonald, R. E.
- Affiliations
- Texas Tech University (US)
- Corresponding author
- McDonald, Robert E.
- ORCID
- McDonald, Robert E.
- Venue
- Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2007-06
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 256-281
- ISSN
- 0094-0607 (ISSN-L)
- 0899-7640
- 1552-7395
- OpenAlex
- W2044270804
- Cited by
- 353
- References
- 49
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 11.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Organizational Strategy and Culture
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Keywords
- nonprofit organizations, organizational mission, innovation, nonprofit hospitals, organizational performance, organizational climate
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