The Sustainable Growth Rate of Non–profit Organisations: The Effect of Efficiency, Profitability and Capital Structure

The activity growth of non–profit organisations is financially contrained by their efficiency, profitability and capital structure. In this paper, a very general expression relating these four organisational parameters is derived and its practical use is discussed.     

Tools, Techniques and Tightropes: The Art of Walking and Talking Private Sector Management in Non–profit Organisations, is it Just a Question of Balance?

The focus of this paper, first presented at a European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management workshop on challenges of managing in the third sector, is the experiences of small to medium non–profit organisations and their relationship with management tools and techniques. It seeks to raise debate around implications for the creative use of private sector management tools and to contribute to understanding of non–profit management practice. While lessons may be learned from business techniques and processes, the paper contends that execution of business enhancing tools needs to be considered in contexts relevant to the sector's interests and primary aims.