The impact of contractual funding on UK charity organisations

  • Kent Springdal
  • , Keefa Kiwanuka

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

    Abstract

    This paper examines the impact of recent contractual funding on three major UK charitable organisations. Through a detailed and longitudinal case study of these organisations, the current research examines how the change in the nature of funding has impacted on the goals, missions and organisational values of these charitable organisations. This study has found that the impact of contracts and market based competition on the core mission, traditional values and ethos of the voluntary sector corresponds to the extent that charitable organisations face threats to their survival because of such competition. The impact on organisational values seemed to be proportionate to the dependency on resources from the environment, were an organisation had to mimic the normatively sanctioned values of the institutional framework, in order to ensure organisational survival.
    Original languageEnglish
    Publication statusPublished - 2011
    EventBritish Academy of Management (BAM) Conference 2011: Building and Sustaining High Performance Organisations in a Challenging Environment - Birmingham, U.K
    Duration: 13 Sept 201115 Sept 2011

    Conference

    ConferenceBritish Academy of Management (BAM) Conference 2011: Building and Sustaining High Performance Organisations in a Challenging Environment
    Period13/09/1115/09/11

    Bibliographical note

    Note: 25th Anniversary Conference. ISBN refers to full proceedings on CD-ROM.

    Organising Body: British Academy of Management

    Keywords

    • Business and management studies

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