The Real Mission of the Mission Statement: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Alegre, Inés; Berbegal‐Mirabent, Jasmina

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“…Mission statements are defined in the literature as “a written declaration that communicates the purpose of an organization” (Alegre et al, 2018, p. 456) and some of the literature identifies key elements of mission statements for firms (Bart, 1997; Pearce & David, 1987) and nonprofit organizations (Bryce, 2000; Minkoff & Powell, 2006). As strategic presentations of information, mission statements can be either a reflection of an organization’s self-identity or a demonstration of how the organization wants to be perceived by others or, ideally, both.…”

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Transacting Business and Transforming Communities: The Mission Statements of Community Foundations Around the Globe

Sloan

2020

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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Analyzing mission statements from 1,420 community foundations, this research aims to determine whether community foundations portray themselves as primarily transactional or transformational in their leadership style. Results indicate that approximately half of the community foundations present themselves as transformational dominant although about a third demonstrate transactional dominance. The well-established leadership categories of transformational and transactional (a) give us a new way to explore community foundations’ roles in their communities, (b) help us better understand the way community foundations perceive themselves and their leadership, and (c) provide a mechanism to assess how community foundations are presenting their missions to their communities. In addition, by examining organizations as the unit of analysis, this research answers long-standing calls in leadership studies to consider levels of analysis beyond the individual.

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Transacting Business and Transforming Communities: The Mission Statements of Community Foundations Around the Globe

Sloan

2020

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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“…In any case, it cannot be assumed that what is stated in the missions corresponds to the real organizational behavior and beliefs. Companies may have a mission statement that is not actually implemented (Alegre et al, 2018) and/or disclosed.…”

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“…The same situation could apply to the mention of terms in the discourse. However, although weight is not attributed to the concepts, these are aligned with the components of the mission statements through the qualification methodology created, which tries to avoid the criticism of Alegre et al (2018) regarding similarity in the attribution of importance of the components.…”

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“…Among the perspectives from which the literature on mission statements was developed from the 1980s onward, there is the perspective related to the identification and analysis of components based on typologies (Alegre et al, 2018;Pearce, 1982). From this perspective, the existence of rational writing is accepted, given that the mission statement is elaborated through the inclusion or not of predefined components (Pearce & David, 1987).…”

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“…Organizational mission statements consist of sets of components (Pearce, 1982), the choice of which depends on the characteristics of the organization (Alegre et al, 2018) and its managers. When there is no rationality in their creation, they end up being created by companies without using any prescribed method for building them, which causes the variation in the number of components between mission statements (Campbell, 2001).…”

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Analysis of the level of disclosure of the mission statements of large Brazilian companies,

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Camacho

Santos

2021

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The aim of this study was to verify the level of disclosure of the survival, growth, and profitability (SGP) construct in the mission statements of Brazilian companies and in the collective discourse of different economic sectors, classified according to the “Biggest & Best” Annual published by Exame Magazine. The research seeks to fill the gap in the field by studying the disclosure of the SGP construct in the mission statements of large Brazilian companies. Considering the mission statement as the genesis of strategic planning, an analysis of the disclosure of the SGP construct allows for a discussion of the relevance of the contribution of the mission statement to the elaboration, implementation, and monitoring of that planning. The benefit of a mission statement aligned with the strategic planning lies in adequate communication to the stakeholders regarding the long-term SGP goals, based on the assumption that comprehensive and objective communication minimizes the risks of failures during the management process. Collective subject discourse (CSD) was used to develop a qualification metric of the constitutive elements of the organizational mission statements, enabling it to be identified whether the Brazilian companies, grouped into different economic sectors, are smoothing, concealing, or omitting the construct formed by the SGP components in their mission statements. This study investigates the presence or not of the SGP components in the collective discourse of mission statements of 220 large Brazilian companies. Most of the companies analyzed in the sample do not include SGP in their mission statements and those that do discuss it with discursive vagueness, lacking clarity in their disclosure of the components. For the academia, this finding contributes to understanding the constituent components of the mission statements of large Brazilian companies. For organizations, the findings indicate the need to reflect on the content to be used in the formulation of their mission statements.

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Characterizing the mission statements of benefit corporations: Empirical evidence from Italy

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In 2015, Italy introduced a new legal form-"benefit corporation" (società benefit)that provides legal status to companies that have one or more common benefit objectives in addition to the profit-seeking goal. Italian benefit corporations are obligated by law to operate in a responsible, sustainable, and transparent way and to include the interests of different stakeholders in their corporate strategy. This study examines the Italian case by applying textual statistical analysis on benefit corporations' public mission statements using the IRaMuTeQ software. Performing hierarchical cluster analysis and correspondence factor analysis identifies the "benefit" concept emerging from the mission statements in terms of promotion of individual skills, development of a new business model, and service to society. This study contributes to the debate on the content of mission statements by giving empirical evidence about this new form of business, and it provides some practical implications for managers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers.

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The Real Mission of the Mission Statement: A Systematic Review of the Literature

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Transacting Business and Transforming Communities: The Mission Statements of Community Foundations Around the Globe

Transacting Business and Transforming Communities: The Mission Statements of Community Foundations Around the Globe

Analysis of the level of disclosure of the mission statements of large Brazilian companies,

Characterizing the mission statements of benefit corporations: Empirical evidence from Italy

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