Non-profitt-organisasjoners valg av innsatsområder

Hvordan velger non-profit organisasjoner (NPO) – som Redd Barna - land og områder de går inn i? Amila Buddhika Sirisena har forsket på hvilke valg NPO-ene tar i avhandlingen han forsvarer for doktorgraden 23. oktober.

Amila Buddhika Sirisena disputerer for ph.d.-graden med avhandlingen «International Market Selection of Nonprofit Organizations” tirsdag 23. oktober2018.

Han har fulgt doktorgradsprogrammet ved Handelshøyskolen ved UiA.

Slik beskriver kandidaten selv essensen i avhandlingen:

How do NPO’s choose priority areas?

Despite the growing importance, international expansion of non-profit sector has rarely been studied.

Even though non-profit organizations are fundamentally different from mainstream for-profit organizations, due to their unique characteristics, we observe lot of usage of for-profit theories to explain the non-profit sector.

Therefore the present research argues for the need for new theory to explain the international expansion of the non-profit sector by examining the operational locations of non-profit organizations (NPOs); both traditional and hybrid.

Country selections by NPOs

The research found that traditional NPOs tend to select countries which are less developed, more risky, favored by their home governments and already got other NPOs operating within them, while trying to avoid institutionally weakest countries.

In terms of hybrid NPOs we found that while they prefer countries which are comparatively less developed and governed by relatively weak institutions, they try to avoid risky countries in their country selection efforts.

The research empirically proves the differences in country selection efforts among non-profits and for-profits and highlights the importance of more research in the area.