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Determinants of Innovative Behaviour in Flemish Nonprofit Organizations: An empirical research

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  • Bram Verschuere
  • Eline Beddeleem
  • Dries Verlet

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Faced with an increasingly challenging environment, nonprofit organizations (NPOs) must behave innovatively and act in a result- or performance-oriented manner. In this article, we explore the extent to which NPOs behave innovatively (in their management and service delivery), and the factors that determine this innovative behaviour. We conducted our research in the main subsectors of the Flemish nonprofit sector (education, welfare, health and the socio-cultural sector). The results presented here are based on a survey of 170 NPO managers. We found that the organizations within our sample claim that innovations occur to a fairly large extent. We have, however, discovered differences in innovative behaviour between subsectors. In addition, we found that there are many forces at work when trying to explain innovative behaviour in NPOs and different forms of innovative behaviour also seem to have different explanations.

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  • Bram Verschuere & Eline Beddeleem & Dries Verlet, 2014. "Determinants of Innovative Behaviour in Flemish Nonprofit Organizations: An empirical research," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(2), pages 173-198, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:16:y:2014:i:2:p:173-198
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2012.757347
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    1. Macedo, Isabel Maria & Pinho, José Carlos & Silva, Anabela Martins, 2016. "Revisiting the link between mission statements and organizational performance in the non-profit sector: The mediating effect of organizational commitment," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 34(1), pages 36-46.

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