Impact of stakeholders on the development of non-governmental organisations in Slovenia

Abstract

Unlike profit organisations, which pursue profitable goals under the influence of inßuential stakeholders, the interests of stakeholders in non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are much less uniform. The paper aims to focus on the contribution and the characteristics of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Slovenia, and the conßicting interests as well as the impact of internal and external stakeholders of NGOs. The purpose of this paper is to conduct an empirical analysis of the key influences of internal and external stakeholders. Our intention is to determine the relations between the interests of inßuential stakeholders and the performance of the organisations in question, as well as to deÞne the understanding of performance from the viewpoint of NGOs’ management. We conÞrmed the hypothesis proposing that the external influences of stakeholders have a greater impact on the performance than the internal influences. We found out that public relations, advocacy, fundraising and regularity have a statistically signiÞcant influence on the NGOs’ mission. Complexity and heterogeneity of non-governmental organisations could be counted among the most important research limitations. From the aspect of scientiÞc contribution in the geographical area of Central Europe, i.e. a former communist state, a country in transition economy, it was thus far impossible to Þnd contributions to empirically examine the impact of stakeholders on the development of non-governmental organisations; therefore, the study described in the article is unique in this area.