Date of Award

1-1-2014

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Public Administration and Policy

Content Description

1 online resource (vi, 159 pages) : black and white illustrations

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Yvonne D. Harrison

Committee Members

Paul Miesing

Keywords

crisis, failure, learning, nonprofit, risk, strategy, Organizational behavior, Business failures, Nonprofit organizations, Organizational effectiveness

Subject Categories

Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Public Administration

Abstract

No matter how well an organization is managed, we face some inevitable failures such as deficient volunteers, excess demands for service, unstable grants, etc. Paradoxically however, successful organizations have been using their failures creatively. Beyond such successful use of failure, can benefits of failure be systematically described? What would be the generic ways to benefit from failure? In order to answer that question, three essays were written with the following details.

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