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Collaborative Research: Understanding the Creation and Mission Content of Non-Governmental Organizations

合作研究：理解非政府组织的创建和使命内容

基本信息

批准号：
1758755
负责人：
Jennifer Hadden
金额：
$ 10.85万
依托单位：
University of Maryland, College Park
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-08-15 至 2022-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1758755&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Understanding Creation Mission

项目摘要

This project will examine the creation and mission content of non-governmental organizations [NGOs] based in the United States. The project will enhance basic understanding about when, why, and how entrepreneurs make strategic decisions to enter the non-profit market, and the consequences of these choices for social welfare outcomes. The project will have a broader impact by assisting current and potential non-profit leaders to make better decisions regarding when and how to create new organizations. The research from this project will be disseminated through targeted publications, a public website, and a workshop. The study will also contribute to education and research infrastructure. Specifically, it will develop datasets about NGOs based in the United States that will be made available to other researchers, including extensive qualitative materials from several NGO sectors. It will have an important educational benefit by training undergraduate and graduate students and generating classroom resources.The goal of this project is to develop and test theory about variation in NGO creation and mission content. It asks questions such as: when and why are NGOs created, and for what purposes? Despite the practical and theoretical importance of non-governmental organizations, scholars have given little systematic attention to when NGOs are founded and the purposes for which NGOs are created. This project combines theory from multiple disciplines to enhance knowledge of organizational creation, examining NGOs over time and across different sectors. The proposed project offers two key advances. Methodologically, the project employs experimental and qualitative methods to complement traditional observational, quantitative approaches to organizational creation. Theoretically, the project examines mission content and innovation in NGO creation, building on previous work to examine new outcome variables. The proposed research involves three principal types of original data collection and analysis. First, a statistical analysis of coded NGO mission statements will enable the study of dynamics among a large number of real-world INGOs, promoting external validity. Second, a survey of NGO practitioners will enhance the study's internal validity by integrating an experimental component. Moreover, it will enable the testing of the individual-level observable implications of the theoretical framework. And third, qualitative case studies of the evolution of several INGO sectors will explore the processes by which sectors develop and change. This multi-pronged research strategy is guided by a recognition that the study of organizations benefits from analyses at multiple levels and using multiple methodologies. Cutting across all prongs of the research design is a commitment to studying NGOs in diverse sectors of activity to promote the study's generalizability.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将研究美国非政府组织 [NGO] 的创建和使命内容。该项目将增强对企业家何时、为何以及如何做出进入非营利市场的战略决策以及这些选择对社会福利结果的影响的基本了解。该项目将帮助当前和潜在的非营利组织领导者就何时以及如何创建新组织做出更好的决策，从而产生更广泛的影响。该项目的研究成果将通过有针对性的出版物、公共网站和研讨会进行传播。该研究还将为教育和研究基础设施做出贡献。具体来说，它将开发有关美国非政府组织的数据集，这些数据集将提供给其他研究人员，其中包括来自多个非政府组织部门的大量定性材料。通过培训本科生和研究生以及生成课堂资源，它将产生重要的教育效益。该项目的目标是开发和测试有关非政府组织创建和使命内容变化的理论。它提出了诸如以下问题：非政府组织何时、为何创建，以及目的是什么？尽管非政府组织具有实践和理论上的重要性，但学者们对非政府组织何时成立以及创建目的却鲜有系统的关注。该项目结合了多个学科的理论，以增强组织创建的知识，并随着时间的推移和不同部门对非政府组织进行审查。拟议的项目提供了两个关键的进步。在方法论上，该项目采用实验和定性方法来补充组织创建的传统观察、定量方法。从理论上讲，该项目在以前的工作基础上研究了非政府组织创建的任务内容和创新，以研究新的结果变量。拟议的研究涉及原始数据收集和分析的三种主要类型。首先，对编码的非政府组织使命宣言进行统计分析将能够研究大量现实世界国际非政府组织之间的动态，从而提高外部有效性。其次，对非政府组织从业者的调查将通过整合实验部分来增强研究的内部有效性。此外，它将能够测试理论框架的个人层面的可观察含义。第三，对几个 INGO 部门演变的定性案例研究将探讨部门发展和变化的过程。这种多管齐下的研究策略是基于这样一种认识，即对组织的研究受益于多层次的分析和使用多种方法。研究设计的各个方面都致力于研究不同活动领域的非政府组织，以促进研究的普遍性。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。