Browsing by Author "Andersson, Fredrik O."

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    Growing Pains: The Transformative Journey from a Nascent to a Formal Not-For-Profit Venture
    (Springer, 2018) Edenfield, Avery C.; Andersson, Fredrik O.; School of Public and Environmental Affairs
    This article examines how a social venture transitions from nascent to formal status and argues that the transformation of the organization set in motion by establishing formal boundaries is a deeply profound one. Drawing from the nonprofit and social entrepreneurship literature on what prompts and energizes individuals to initiate new not-for-profit ventures, and linking it to a notion of revolutionary crisis as organizations emerge and develop, we seek to illuminate and explore the tension, and its consequences, between nonprofit entrepreneurs and the organization they create as the new venture transitions from nascent to formal. We do this by presenting the results from an in-depth case study examining the gestation and boundary-forming phases of Robert’s Place Cooperative, a plucky start-up cooperative in a midsize Midwestern city.
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    How Valuable is Experience? Examining the Impact of Founder Experience on Nonprofit Start-Up Success
    (MPAC, 2020-08) Andersson, Fredrik O.; School of Public and Environmental Affairs
    Nonprofit entrepreneurs face a number of liabilities that are particularly significant during the emergent phase of a new nonprofit. Using a human capital perspective, this study examines the influence previous experience plays as it relates to nonprofit organizational start-up success. The study draws on a sample of 118 nascent nonprofit entrepreneurs. The results from a logistic regression analysis show no significant impact with regard to education or prior nonprofit management experience. The results, however, show that prior start-up experience significantly enhances the likelihood of start-up success.
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    Necessity Nonprofit Entrepreneurship: A Study of Extrinsically Motivated Nascent Nonprofit Entrepreneurs
    (De Gruyter Open, 2018) Andersson, Fredrik O.; School of Public and Environmental Affairs
    Individuals creating new nonprofit organizations are often viewed as being driven by intrinsic and altruistic motives pulling them into becoming a nonprofit entrepreneur. However, individuals can also be pushed towards self-employment in the nonprofit sector because of negative external forces, a phenomenon labeled necessity nonprofit entrepreneurship. This article explores necessity nonprofit entrepreneurs to illustrate how they differ from those not explicitly driven by necessity in starting up a new nonprofit, and what policy implications and questions necessity nonprofit entrepreneurship raises for nonprofit stakeholders.
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    Social Enterprises' Resource Acquisition: Bringing Signaling Theory into Focus
    (2023-09) Ji, Chen; Konrath, Sara; Andersson, Fredrik O.; Paarlberg, Laurie; Badertscher, Katherine
    Social entrepreneurship has been recognized by both scholars and practitioners as a powerful mechanism to address a variety of complex social issues, such as addressing poverty, reducing unemployment, and empowering women. With the rapid rise of social enterprise in the last two decades, most social enterprises still face many challenges in operation and development due to environmental uncertainty, the liability of newness, and tradeoffs in balancing financial and social objectives. Besides, social enterprises are expected to become financially self-sustainable so as to reduce their reliance on government funding. These financial and growth expectations require social enterprises to actively seek and acquire resources, especially financial resources, through diverse channels. The dissertation uses insights from entrepreneurship studies to explore the dynamics of social enterprises’ resource acquisition by examining an overarching question: what factors are associated with early-state social enterprises’ resource acquisition? Using a social entrepreneurship dataset collecting survey data from around the world, the first essay proposes two contrasting theories and tests whether the hybrid identity (e.g. with both social and financial motives) of social enterprise boosts or inhibits resource acquisition outcomes. The second essay follows up by focusing on nonprofit start-ups’ resource acquisition, and it further examines how founders’ experience, founding teams’ characteristics, and organizations’ innovativeness are associated with their acquisition of philanthropic grants. The third essay uses signaling theory to examine how human capital and social media signal a social enterprise’s venture quality, and how they could be associated with the social enterprise’s philanthropic donation and debt funding acquisition. In sum, this dissertation brings signaling theory into focus and specifically examines what signals through what signaling channels would be associated with social enterprises’ resource acquisition. It also advances knowledge in social enterprises’ sustainable development and cross-sector collaborations as well as offers actionable suggestions for practitioners in improving the strategy in communicating with external stakeholders.
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    Some new nonprofits take off, others flop – and nobody knows why
    (The Conversation US, Inc., 2017-12-15) Andersson, Fredrik O.; School of Public and Environmental Affairs
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    Start-Up Funding Intentions Among Nascent Nonprofit Entrepreneurs: An Exploratory Investigation
    (Midwest Public Affairs Conference, 2018) Andersson, Fredrik O.; School of Public and Environmental Affairs
    This paper explores the start-up funding intentions of nascent nonprofit entrepreneurs, i.e., individuals in the process of creating a new formal nonprofit organization. The main questions being examined are from which sources nascent nonprofit entrepreneurs anticipate to obtain start-up funding from, how much start-up funding nascent nonprofit entrepreneurs anticipate they will need to formally launch their new nonprofit, and if there are any differences in funding intentions among nascent nonprofit entrepreneurs with and without previous start-up experience. The results from a survey of 103 nascent nonprofit entrepreneurs in Kansas City are presented and contrasted with existing research on funding of new nonprofit organizations. The results show an apparent preference for start-up funding from philanthropic grants and private donations, along with personal contributions of the founder(s).
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    What constitutes a new nonprofit? Investigating nonprofit organizational founding dates
    (2021) Levine Daniel, Jamie; Andersson, Fredrik O.
    We contend that the question of when a new nonprofit is founded has not been pursued with sufficient precision. Specifically, a fundamental challenge facing any nonprofit researcher planning to detect, isolate, and analyze new nonprofits is that nonprofit founding is a process, not a discrete event. We use administrative data that includes three different founding indicators from more than 4,000 arts organizations, supplemented with survey data from 242 organizations, to illustrate some of the problems inherent in treating the founding process as one discrete event. We also elevate the voices of founders to demonstrate their conceptualization of the concept and offer insights into the multidimensionality of founding.
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    Where Do Nonprofit and Civil Society Researchers Publish? Perceptions of Nonprofit Journal Quality
    (2019) Walk, Marlene; Andersson, Fredrik O.
    The field of nonprofit and civil society studies has seen tremendous growth in the past few decades and scholarly journals have played a central role for this growth by facilitating circulation of research in the academic community. To date, only three nonprofit journals have an impact factor and are indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). However, there are several other journals serving the nonprofit and civil society academic community that do not appear in the SSCI. Thus, focusing solely on impact factors is unfeasible for creating rankings or to assess journal quality, as doing so fails to capture these other outlets. Seeking to surmount some of the shortcomings of relying merely on impact factors, this exploratory study uses survey data collected from nonprofit and civil society researchers in the United States and Europe to capture which journals they perceive to be quality outlets in the field. Findings show that impact factor is not necessarily the most common indicator for journal quality, instead newer outlets without impact factor are also perceived as potential viable outlets for publications with (at least) second tier if not top tier quality rating.