Decomposing the Impact of Leadership Diversity Among Nonprofit Organizations
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2023
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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
Abstract
Our contribution lies in exploring loci and reach of leadership diversity’s influence
on proximal and distal performance outcomes to understand how and where these
can be mobilized. Our moderated-mediation modeling decomposes the direct,
indirect, and interaction effects of demographic diversity among three types of focal
actors in governance—Boards (gender-, age-, and ethno-racial variety), Board Chairs
(gender and ethno-racial demography), Chief Executives (gender and ethno-racial
demography)—on five factors reflecting functional and social dimensions of Board
Performance and two dimensions of Organizational Performance. We demonstrate
that the Board composition affects proximal board performance outcomes, whereas
CEO demography is more related to distal organizational performance outcomes.
Board Chairs, a less-examined aspect of nonprofit governing, stand out as bridging
both proximal and distal outcomes, both directly and through their interactions with
Board diversity and CEO demography.
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nonprofit, diversity, board of directors, chief executive officer, organizational performance, board performance
Citation
Sessler Bernstein, R., & Fredette, C. (2023). Decomposing the Impact of Leadership Diversity Among Nonprofit Organizations. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 08997640221145119.