Between State and Profit: An Analysis of Changes in Nonprofit Interorganizational Networks and Tactics in the Energy Efficiency Field 1973-2006

这个项目调查了复杂和不断变化的关系之间的非营利组织，政府和私营企业组织，因为他们不同的合作或冲突，关于能源效率的政策和活动。从20世纪70年代开始？在美国能源危机期间，这三个部门的组织都在努力提高能源效率，通常以非常不同的方式。关于如何定义和促进能源效率的冲突有时往往会导致诉讼等战斗行动。然而，一些组织也克服了他们之间的差异，在定义和促进能源效率方面进行了合作。本研究将考察非营利组织、政府和商业组织之间的关系如何随着时间的推移而变化，以及影响这些变化的因素。研究人员将特别关注非营利组织作为影响企业和政府之间互动的一股新力量。从1973年到现在，关于能源效率方面的战斗和合作互动的数据将使我们全面了解互动是如何演变的。社会网络分析将被进行，六个密集的案例研究将检查参与非营利组织决策的因素。企业、政府和非营利部门之间新的合作方式是应对当前社会面临的一系列复杂挑战的关键。除了产生关于能源部门有效和无效关系的见解之外，本研究的结果还应该为如何在重要政策问题上普遍加强协作互动提供一些见解。

This project investigates the complex and changing relationships between non-profit, governmental, and private business organizations as they variously cooperate or conflict with regard to energy efficiency policies and activities. Since the 1970?s energy crisis, organizations from all three of these sectors have worked to increase energy efficiency, often in very different ways. Conflicts about how energy efficiency should be defined and promoted sometimes have often led to combative actions like lawsuits. However, some organizations have also overcome their differences to collaborate in defining and promoting energy efficiency. This study will examine how relationships between nonprofit, government and business organizations have changed over time and the factors that influence these changes. The researchers will pay special attention to non-profits as a new set of forces affecting the interactions between business and government. Data from 1973 to the present on both combative and cooperative interactions around energy efficiency will give us an overall picture of how interactions have evolved. Social networks analyses will be conducted and six intensive case studies will examine the factors involved in nonprofit organizational decision making. New cooperative approaches between business, government, and the non-profit sector are key to meeting a number of complex challenges that currently face society. In addition to generating insights about effective and ineffective relationships in the energy sector, results from this study should provide some insights into how to enhance collaborative interaction around important policy issues generallly.