Necessity Nonprofit Entrepreneurship: A Study of Extrinsically Motivated Nascent Nonprofit Entrepreneurs

Andersson Fredrik O. ()
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Andersson Fredrik O.: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5199, USA

Nonprofit Policy Forum, 2018, vol. 9, issue 2, 12

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: nonprofit entrepreneurship; necessity entrepreneurs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1515/npf-2017-0024

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