Governance and financial vulnerability of Nonprofit Organizationsan analysis of the NGDOs from Spain and the United Kingdom
- Pablo de Andrés Alonso Director
- María Elena Romero Merino Co-director
Defence university: Universidad de Burgos
Fecha de defensa: 04 April 2017
- María Begoña Prieto Moreno Chair
- Manuel Monjas Barroso Secretary
- Natalia Martín Cruz Committee member
- Ricardo Correia Committee member
- Almudena Sevilla Sanz Committee member
Type: Thesis
Abstract
This doctoral dissertation analyzes the relationship between the board composition and the financial vulnerability of nonprofit organizations. For this purpose, the first chapter reviews the state of the art literature on governance in the nonprofit sector. The second and third chapters focus on an in-depth study of both the predictors of the financial vulnerability and the concept of vulnerability itself, proposing a multidimensional model for its definition. Finally, the fourth chapter contrasts the main hypothesis of the thesis, finding that there is no relationship between the board composition of the organization (in terms of size, independence, duality ceo/chairman, presence of founders and experience and knowledge of board members) and its financial vulnerability. The samples analyzed throughout the dissertation are composed by non-governmental development organizations (ngdos) from spain and the united kingdom.