Discovering the Principles of Organizational governance in Iranian non-profit Organizations

In today's organizations and firms, organizational governance is defined as the interaction between the organization’s CEO and senior managers with the board of directors, shareholders, and beneficiaries. Organizational governance is important in all types of formal organizations, but more important in non-profit organizations whose beneficiaries are a large part of society. Using the grounded theory as the research method, this study has explored and the principles of organizational governance and explained them as an organizational governance model for Iranian non-profit organizations. The current study has an interpretive paradigm and a qualitative approach based on emergent Glaserian grounded theory as the research strategy. The understudy population was comprised of senior managers of not-for-profit organizations in Razavi Khorasan province, among which 10 people were investigated by conducting semi-structured interviews and purposeful sampling until reaching theoretical saturation. Gathered data were analyzed using MAXQDA qualitative analysis software and classified in the form of 50 primary and six secondary codes. Subsequently, the final model of the research was developed centered on the core category titled as "principles of governance in non-profit organizations." This model implies six principles of honesty, social justice, accountability, transparency, purity and trustworthiness, and relational interactions.