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Strategies for growth: Intervention in a church
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In this paper, a case study of a small, local congregation, and reports the results of an intervention aimed at evaluation and change of existing organizational strategy, is presented, which resulted in increased awareness of organizational problems and needs, and provided a basis for future choices involving pastoral leadership, programme development and institutional needs.About:
This article is published in Long Range Planning.The article was published on 1984-12-01. It has received 20 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Interim & Business model.read more
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Entrepreneurial Orientation and the Performance of Religious Congregations as Predicted by Rational Choice Theory
TL;DR: In this article, the Rational Choice Theory of Religion (RCT) was used to investigate whether nonprofit, religious congregations can benefit from similar initiatives, based on the hypothesis that businesses that act with an entrepreneurial orientation enjoy superior performance.
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Environment, planning processes, and organizational performance of churches
Randall Y. Odom,W. Randy Boxx +1 more
TL;DR: Perceptions of the environmilenit, or more specifically the importance of certain entvironmiental factors used in decision-mnaking, were related to the level of planning sophistication, and platning sophistication was found to berelated to the size and growth of churches.
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A guide to journal articles on strategic management in nonprofit organizations, 1977 to 1992.
TL;DR: This article is a guide to over a hundred journal articles on strategic management in nonprofit organizations, published from 1977 to 1992 in nineteen leading general management or nonprofit journals, organized into widely accepted strategic management topic areas and research categories.
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Validating Rotter’s (1966) locus of control scale with a sample of not‐for‐profit leaders
TL;DR: The authors validate Rotter's locus of control scale with a sample of religious not-for-profit leaders using a questionnaire sent to 558 senior pastors of Arkansas Southern Baptist churches.
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Planning for a non-profit service: A study of U.S. credit unions
TL;DR: In this article, an overview of credit unions within the U.S. financial services industry is provided, and the result of a recent study of 283 such institutions is found that formal planning facilitates communication between management and the board, directs the organization to focus on critical success factors, and results in superior performance along important criteria.
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Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process.
TL;DR: The proposed theoretical framework deals with alternative ways in which organizations define their product-market domains (strategy) and construct mechanisms (structures and processes) to pursue these strategies.
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Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process
TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical framework for organizational adaptation is proposed, which deals with alternative ways in which organizations define their product-market domains (strategies) and construct mechanisms (structures and processes) to pursue these strategies.
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Organizational Effectiveness and the Voluntary Organization
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify organizational characteristics which act as determinants of effec ectiveness of the voluntary organization and identify the organizational characteristics that are important determinants for effeciency.
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Corporate planning for a church
TL;DR: A case history of the introduction of corporate planning into a small Methodist Church can be found in this article, where the authors describe the methods used to secure a widespread involvement and participation in the exercise of those who attend the church, and draw parallels with business planning situations.
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