EXPRESS: BROAD VERSUS NARROW ORGANIZATIONAL SCOPE AMONG NONPROFITS: THE MODERATING EFFECTS OF THE TASK ENVIRONMENT

IF 5.2 2区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Strategic Organization Pub Date : 2022-07-22 DOI:10.1177/14761270221114913

Nick Mmbaga, Jiaju Yan, David Gras

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Abstract

We use a mixed methods design to investigate the relationship between scope and performance within nonprofits and under varying conditions of environmental dynamism, munificence, and complexity. Prior strategy research on for-profit organizations suggests that relatively high levels of environmental dynamism and complexity attenuate the negative relationship between scope and performance, while greater munificence reinforces it. Our longitudinal quantitative study of approximately 63,000 Canadian nonprofits suggests the opposite: greater dynamism reinforces the negative relationship, and munificence bears no definitive effect, indicating that certain task environment effects on the scope–performance relationship manifest uniquely for organizations pursuing social over economic value creation. We then conduct qualitative interviews with nonprofit executives to explore in greater detail the probable mechanisms that underpin these relationships, highlighting three—nature of mission, scarcity of human capital, and competitive tension in collaboration. We offer several contributions to theory and practice regarding the relationship between nonprofit scope and performance.

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EXPRESS：非营利组织的组织范围宽与窄：任务环境的调节效应

我们使用混合方法设计来调查非营利组织的范围和绩效之间的关系，以及在不同的环境动态、慷慨和复杂性条件下。先前对营利性组织的战略研究表明，相对较高水平的环境动态性和复杂性减弱了范围与绩效之间的负相关关系，而更大的慷慨则强化了这种负相关关系。我们对大约63,000家加拿大非营利组织的纵向定量研究表明，情况恰恰相反:更大的活力强化了负面关系，而慷慨并没有明确的影响，这表明某些任务环境对范围-绩效关系的影响只在追求社会价值而不是经济价值创造的组织中表现出来。然后，我们对非营利组织高管进行定性访谈，以更详细地探索支撑这些关系的可能机制，强调使命的三种性质、人力资本的稀缺性和合作中的竞争紧张。我们对非营利组织范围和绩效之间的关系提供了一些理论和实践方面的贡献。

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9.80

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8.20%

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期刊介绍： Strategic Organization is devoted to publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed, discipline-grounded conceptual and empirical research of interest to researchers, teachers, students, and practitioners of strategic management and organization. The journal also aims to be of considerable interest to senior managers in government, industry, and particularly the growing management consulting industry. Strategic Organization provides an international, interdisciplinary forum designed to improve our understanding of the interrelated dynamics of strategic and organizational processes and outcomes.