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How Nonprofit Organizations Manage Risk

In: Paid and Unpaid Labour in the Social Economy. An International Perspective

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  • Dennis R. Young

    (Andrew Young School of Policy Studies)

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to identify the kinds of decisions where nonprofit organizations need to manage their risks in a strategic fashion, to review what we know about how they approach these decisions, and to offer a conceptual framework that nonprofits can use to develop a more sophisticated and effective approach to their risk management decisions in the future. For various reasons, nonprofits have not taken a sufficiently robust view of risk management, A simple framework is presented to address the risk-related decisions of nonprofits in a strategic fashion, with a view to inspire fuller attention to risk management in the nonprofit academic literature and in professional forums.

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  • Dennis R. Young, 2009. "How Nonprofit Organizations Manage Risk," AIEL Series in Labour Economics, in: Marco Musella & Sergio Destefanis (ed.), Paid and Unpaid Labour in the Social Economy. An International Perspective, edition 1, chapter 3, pages 33-46, AIEL - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro.
    • Handle: RePEc:ail:chapts:03-03
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    Cited by:

    1. Canh Thien Dang & Trudy Owens, 2017. "What motivates Ugandan NGOs to diversify: Risk reduction or private gain?," Discussion Papers 2017-11, University of Nottingham, CREDIT.
    2. Alexandra Graddy-Reed, 2021. "Decisions of firm risk and the role of organizational identity," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 57(1), pages 1-21, June.
    3. Domański Jarosław, 2016. "Risk Categories and Risk Management Processes in Nonprofit Organizations," Foundations of Management, Sciendo, vol. 8(1), pages 227-242, January.

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    Keywords

    nonprofit institutions; risk management; decision making.;
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    JEL classification:

    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • L31 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs; Social Entrepreneurship
    • M51 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions

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