Becoming Accountability: Theorising a different engagement of beneficiaries in nonprofit organisations

The purpose of this paper is to theoretically extend current conceptions of accountability and more specifically accountability toward beneficiaries within nonprofit organisations, through insights garnered from Deleuze and Guattari. The aim is to reconsider relations within nonprofit organisations that contribute to the marginalisation of the beneficiary stakeholder group, including relations presented within extant literature, through considering accountability as becoming within assemblages. Doing so may encourage a pluralised organisational environment where more voices are listened to. Current accounting and accountability tools and processes produce a marginalised voice for some. For that to be different, different productive possibilities are needed. Thinking about nonprofit accountability through assemblages may enable positive change