Strategic group membership and nonprofit organization performance

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Marlin ◽  
William J. Ritchie ◽  
Scott W. Geiger
Keyword(s):  
Group Membership ◽  
Nonprofit Organization ◽  
Organization Performance ◽  
Strategic Group

Application of Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety to Interorganizational Conflicts in Nonprofit Organizations

2021 ◽  
pp. 009539972098543
Author(s):  
Ahmed S. Alojairi
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Nonprofit Organization ◽  
Organization Performance ◽  
Requisite Variety ◽  
Lack Of Fit ◽  
Law Of Requisite Variety

This study examines conflict that can co-determine the effectiveness of nonprofit organization performance. Based on Ashby’s law of requisite variety, interorganizational conflict is defined in terms of a lack of fit between input variety and variety-handling capabilities. The calculated organizational interaction effectiveness (IE) ratio of 2.04 is used to determine the quality of interactions. “Flexibility” is the dominant category for helpful incidents (49.03%). Within non-helpful incidents (45.67%), however, “Unreliability” is the dominant category. This major source of conflict commonly produces an imbalance between flexibility and reliability as manifest by a mismatch between input variety and variety-handling capabilities.

Dynamics of the strategic group membership–performance linkage in rapidly changing environments

2004 ◽  
Vol 57 (12) ◽  
pp. 1378-1390 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Ángel Zúñiga-Vicente ◽  
Juan Manuel de la Fuente-Sabaté ◽  
Isabel Suárez González
Keyword(s):  
Group Membership ◽  
Strategic Group ◽  
Changing Environments
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