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NONPROFIT AND VOLUNTARY SECTOR QUARTERLY
Volume 34, Issue 3, Pages 340-361Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0899764005275411
Keywords
forms of nonprofit collaboration; resource sufficiency; institutional factors; network effect
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Existing research stops short of explaining why nonprofit organizations develop certain forms of collaborations instead of others. In this article, the authors combine resource dependency, institutional, and network theories to examine the factors that influence the likelihood that nonprofit organizations develop formal types of collaborative activities vis-a-vis informal types. Based on the survey data of 95 urban charitable organizations, the study has found that an organization is more likely to increase the degree of formality of its collaborative activities when it is older, has a larger budget size, receives government funding but relies on fewer government funding streams, has more board linkages with other nonprofit organizations, and is not operating in the education and research or social service industry.
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