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Sustainability management in non-governmental organisations: development of a maturity model

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  • Martin Albert
  • Xenia Bauche
  • Luisa Closmann
  • Tobias Eichholz
  • Katharina Preis

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Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) address social and/or ecological challenges often through their direct work, which is called the demand-side of NGOs. In this paper, the focus lies on the supply-side, the sustainability management in NGOs. The research goal is to evaluate the sustainability management in NGOs with the help of a maturity model. For the development of such a maturity model, a mixed-method approach is used in a sequential mixed design, consisting of a systematic literature review, qualitative expert interviews, qualitative content analyses, quantitative questionnaire, and descriptive statistical data analysis. Seven dimensions of sustainability management in NGOs could be identified: concept of sustainability management, management (systemic capability), financial sustainability, public relations, stakeholder management, top-down strategy, and bottom-up personal initiative. With the help of a developed and partly evaluated model, the maturity level of the sustainability management of 35 German NGOs are analysed, and results are presented.

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  • Martin Albert & Xenia Bauche & Luisa Closmann & Tobias Eichholz & Katharina Preis, 2022. "Sustainability management in non-governmental organisations: development of a maturity model," International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 16(3/4), pages 425-460.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijisde:v:16:y:2022:i:3/4:p:425-460
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