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Accountability Online: Understanding the Web-Based Accountability Practices of Nonprofit Organizations
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Nonprofit organizations are increasingly using Internet-based technologies to address accountability. This article presents a set of conceptual, theoretical, and empirical innovations to help understand this phenomenon. First, this article presents a conceptual framework that delineates two key dimensions of Web-based accountability practices: disclosure and dialogue. It then posits a four-factor explanatory model of online accountability incorporating organizational strategy, capacity, governance, and environment. Last, it tests the model through a content analysis of 117 U.S. community foundation Web sites combined with survey and financial data. The descriptive statistics show that the Web site has been more effectively used to provide financial and performance disclosures than to provide dialogic mechanisms for stakeholder input and interactive engagement. Our multivariate analyses, in turn, highlight capacity- and governance-related variables, especially asset size and board performance, as the most significant factors associated with the adoption of Web-based accountability practices.
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- Authors
- Saxton, G. D., & Guo, C.
- Venue
- Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2009-07-23
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 270-295
- ISSN
- 0094-0607 (ISSN-L)
- 0899-7640
- 1552-7395
- OpenAlex
- W1988668112
- Cited by
- 338
- References
- 26
- FWCI
- 19.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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