EAGER: The Origins of Successful NGOs

EAGER：成功非政府组织的起源

• 批准号: 1127821
• 负责人: James Rauch
• 金额: $ 1.38万
• 依托单位: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1127821&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Origins; Successful; NGOs

This EAGER award funds data collection from existing published sources. The research team hopes to investigate whether or not employee "spinoff" organizations in the nonprofit sector are similar to spinoff firms in the private sector. Spinoffs are new organizations or firms established by a former employee who is able to use skills from his/her previous job in establishing the new firm or organization. The research team wants to determine whether or not spinoffs are more successful in the non-profit sector than comparable organizations that are started by non-employees.The first step of the exploratory research is to collect and tabulate the characteristics of the founders of employee spinoffs. Were their parent firms mainly in the public, for-profit, or nonprofit sector? Were they mainly performing the same activities or services? Do these answers differ significantly between membership organizations and service organizations? We will gain insight into how these NGOs originate in addition to from where they originate. Are the founding workers exceptionally skilled? Did they occupy managerial positions? Do they tend to be older or more experienced? The second step of our proposed research is to correlate the origins and characteristics of the founding workers with NGO success. Does spinoff from the public sector promote success,possibly due to the establishment of a complementary relationship with a large or stable public entity? Does spinoff from other NGOs make success less likely, perhaps because of diminishing returns to exploitation of a donor base? We can expect higher skill levels of the founding workers to be associated with a higher probability of new NGO survival, but how strong is the connection?

该EAGER奖资助从现有出版来源收集数据。 该研究小组希望调查非营利部门的员工“分拆”组织是否与私营部门的分拆公司相似。 衍生企业是指由前雇员建立的新组织或公司，该雇员能够利用他/她以前工作中的技能建立新的公司或组织。 研究小组希望确定在非营利部门，分拆是否比由非雇员创办的类似组织更成功。探索性研究的第一步是收集员工分拆创始人的特征并制成表格。他们的母公司主要是公共部门、营利性部门还是非营利部门？他们是否主要从事相同的活动或服务？这些答案在会员组织和服务组织之间有显著差异吗？我们将深入了解这些非政府组织是如何起源的，以及它们的起源地。创始员工是否技术高超？他们是否担任管理职务？他们是年纪更大还是更有经验？我们建议的研究的第二步是将创始工作者的起源和特征与非政府组织的成功联系起来。从公共部门派生出来是否会促进成功，这可能是因为与一个大型或稳定的公共实体建立了互补关系？从其他非政府组织中分拆出来是否会降低成功的可能性，也许是因为利用捐助者基础的回报越来越少？我们可以预期，创始员工的技能水平越高，新NGO生存的概率就越高，但这种联系有多强？