Strategy and Human Resources Management in Non-Profit Organizations: Its Interaction with Open Innovation

Abstract

The socioeconomic changes that many countries have been experiencing in recent decades, caused by structural factors or by specific circumstances, where the pandemic crisis of COVID-19 is only the most recent example, have posed challenges to organizations, which present themselves more and more and in various forms as threatened by the possibility of fulfilling their mission. Public and private sectors increasingly present themselves as insufficient to respond effectively to day-to-day requests. This context of instability and the resulting impacts for non-profit organizations pose serious problems to the way in which governance is exercised and served as a motivation for carrying out a study that aimed to understand the influence of strategy and human resources on the governance of these organizations. A review of the literature on the variables under study made it possible to identify the sub-dimensions associated with each one of them and the respective indicators. Thus, for a quantitative study, it was possible to apply a questionnaire to 242 Holy Houses of Mercy in Portugal to understand the direct and indirect influences of strategic management and human resources management on the governance of these institutions. The results obtained show the existence of a positive relationship between the variables under analysis, confirming that not only do these variables influence, by themselves and directly, the governance of the institutions studied, but also the strategy influences human resources policies, which in turn have implications for the way the Holy Houses of Mercy deal with aspects associated with governance. It is concluded that, in general, for these organizations to be more effective in efforts to improve their governance processes, they must focus on strategic management and human resources management instruments.

The Role of Open Innovation, and the Performance of European Union Regions

“…Innovation management models are nowadays fundamental aspects, since it is possible to witness permanent changes in organizational contexts, whether in the co-operation between people, either between entities, or even between people of different entities. The performance of European Union regions, in terms of innovation, is intrinsically associated with the adoption of the guiding principles for open innovation by organizations in their respective territories [66,67].…”

Organizational and social innovation in Non-Profit Organizations performance in the context of an emergent economy

“…According to Winand and Anagnostopoulos (2017), Miranda, Farias, de Araújo Schwartz and de Almeida (2016) and Verschuere et al (2014), when NPOs adopt innovative behavior in the workplace and build new external relationships, they can respond competitively to changes in the environment and thereby improve their performance. Besides, NPOs that introduce new management techniques such as new managerial and human resource management styles (Oliveira, Sousa, Silva & Santos, 2021;do Adro & Leitão, 2020;Bastida, Marimon & Carreras, 2018), new models of Organizational structures which strategically support knowledge management, learning and innovation (Dong, Yim & Zhang, 2020;Dekoulou & Trivellas, 2017;Dedahanov, Rhee, & Yoon, 2017), new forms of collaborative work with stakeholders (Jevanesan, Antony, Rodgers & Prashar, 2019;Laurett & Ferreira, 2018), new strategies to identify donors of resources and, recruit volunteers (Schreiner, Trent, Prange & Allen, 2018), new approaches to accessing technologies for their management, (McNutt, Guo, Goldkind & An, 2018;Rathi & Given, 2016) have better performance indicators that guarantee better sustainability in the short, medium and long run (Zhang. et al, 2019;Shin, Kang & Bae, 2020).…”

“…Due to the aforementioned, the research studies of the Organizational Innovations of NPOs have been oriented towards their analysis within their context as a strategy to provide an argumentative response to the concern of managers and those of governmental agencies related to the activity of these organizations, in addition to donors, who guarantee quality management with efficiency (Oliveira et al, 2021;do Adro & Leitão, 2020;Bastida et al, 2018, Urionabarrenechea, Lage & Arrizabalaga, 2015.…”

“…These different studies have aimed at generating knowledge regarding taking advantage of Organizational Innovation to achieve effective management in NPOs using alternative strategies to those of organizations in the business world (Oliveira et al, 2021;do Adro & Leitão,2020;Zhang., et al, 2019;Tran, 2019), which contributes to a better understanding of the issues of specific benefit to NPOs themselves, as well as their benefactors, donors, governmental agencies responsible for the surveillance and promotion of these organizations, and for academics interested in the subject.…”

Exploring the Open Innovation Information Spillover Effect: Conceptual Framework Construction and Exploratory Analysis

“…[3,5]. Scholars broadened the industrial fields of open innovation research, extending it to low-end industrial firms, the public sector, and nonprofit organizations [6][7][8]. The analysis units were widened from the firm level to the project, industry, and regional levels [9,10].…”