TY - JOUR

T1 - Balancing Acts

T2 - NPO-Leadership and Volunteering

AU - Jäger, Urs

AU - Kreutzer, Karin

AU - Beyes, Timon

PY - 2009/2/1

Y1 - 2009/2/1

N2 - Volunteering is regarded as an increasingly important phenomenon and the ‘employment’ of volunteers as one of the typical traits of nonprofit organizations. However, the consequences of volunteering for everyday practices of NPO-leadership, i.e. the question of how non-paid employees are treated in settings where formal power is lacking, have so far not received the attention they deserve. Our paper discusses practices for leading without formal power by presenting findings from an empirical research project. Using a Grounded Theory approach, we identify five interrelated practices that question conventional notions of transformative or charismatic leadership.

AB - Volunteering is regarded as an increasingly important phenomenon and the ‘employment’ of volunteers as one of the typical traits of nonprofit organizations. However, the consequences of volunteering for everyday practices of NPO-leadership, i.e. the question of how non-paid employees are treated in settings where formal power is lacking, have so far not received the attention they deserve. Our paper discusses practices for leading without formal power by presenting findings from an empirical research project. Using a Grounded Theory approach, we identify five interrelated practices that question conventional notions of transformative or charismatic leadership.

KW - Media and communication studies

KW - Cultural studies

KW - nonprofit organizations

KW - npo-leadership

KW - practice-perspective

KW - volunteering

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70349623066&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/j.1468-0408.2008.00466.x

DO - 10.1111/j.1468-0408.2008.00466.x

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 25

SP - 79

EP - 97

JO - Financial Accountability and Management

JF - Financial Accountability and Management

SN - 0267-4424

IS - 1

ER -