Managing sport in the nonprofit sector

Abstract

Board-staff relations – the nature and quality of the working relationship and overall interactions between the unpaid members of an NFP management committee and the paid staff in the organisation – especially the Executive Director. For-profit sector – ‘a distinct part of the social organisation of a society’ comprised of business enterprises (often termed ‘firms’) ‘whose principal goal is to make a profit’ (adapted from Horton-Smith, Stebbins and Dover, 2006, p.205, p.89). Governance – the rules and processes by which organisations are operated and controlled, ‘usually mainly the province of the board of directors, and to a lesser