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Determinants of non-profit commercialism. Resource deficits, institutional pressures or organizational contingencies?

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  • Ben Suykens
  • Bert George
  • Filip De Rynck
  • Bram Verschuere

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Resource competition is assumed to encourage commercial behaviour by publically funded non-profit organizations (NPOs). However, this widespread assumption falls short as empirical findings remain equivocal. In this study, we theorize that non-profit commercialism can indeed emerge from resource deficits but also from institutional pressures and organizational contingencies. Using logistic regression analyses on two-wave survey data of Flemish NPOs, we explain the presence, intensity and nature of non-profit commercialism. While resource dependency indeed explains the presence and extent of non-profit commercialism, we find that institutional pressures and organizational contingencies also have a role to play.

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  • Ben Suykens & Bert George & Filip De Rynck & Bram Verschuere, 2021. "Determinants of non-profit commercialism. Resource deficits, institutional pressures or organizational contingencies?," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(10), pages 1456-1478, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpxmxx:v:23:y:2021:i:10:p:1456-1478
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2020.1764083
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