A Study of the Dynamic Nonprofit Governance Process from a Phenomenological Perspective

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The purpose of this study is to develop an analytical framework and demonstrate a dynamic governance process of small non-profit organizations called Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) with focus on “intentionality” (Husserl, 2013) of nonprofit leaders who are responsible for fulfilling mission-oriented organizational activities. The term of intentionality is a useful concept in addressing the challenge of previous research of elucidating the dynamic nonprofit governance process from an institutional perspective. In particular, the acts of intentionality by nonprofit leaders that defines the future direction of board operations are to be demonstrated by looking inside the process of forming institutional logics (Friedland & Alford, 1991; Jackall, 1988; Thornton & Ocasio, 1999; 2008) of nonprofit governance. In order to do this, in the form of an application of Husserl’s phenomenology, this research attempts to build an analytical framework in order to capture the dynamic process of nonprofit governance by clarifying changes in his or her intentionality for the future direction of the board operations.