caa a22 4500 475829875 CHVBK 20180406123838.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008939322449 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008939322449 Nonprofit's Use of Awards to Improve and Demonstrate Performance: Valuable Discipline or Burdensome Formalities? [Elektronische Daten] [Rob Paton, Jane Foot] Arrangements to certify that an organization's management systems meet standards of good practice are an increasingly prominent feature in the environment of public and private nonprofits. This paper reports an exploratory study of the issues that this phenomenon presents to managers and policy makers, drawing on the limited literature, and five case studies covering two different schemes. The main conclusions are that nonprofits can and do use these awards in very different ways, and hence the outcomes are diverse. These findings run counter both to the rational system assumptions on which such arrangements are based, and to the general thrust of institutional theory with its emphasis on isomorphism. Some implications for decision makers and future research are outlined. International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University, 2000 audit nationallicence ISO 9000 nationallicence Investors in People nationallicence management nationallicence institutional theory nationallicence Paton Rob The Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom aut Foot Jane The Open University Business School, UK aut Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 11/4(2000-12-01), 329-353 0957-8765 11:4<329 2000 11 11266 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008939322449 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008939322449 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Paton Rob The Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Foot Jane The Open University Business School, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 11/4(2000-12-01), 329-353 0957-8765 11:4<329 2000 11 11266 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer