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

Ben Suykens, Bert George, Filip De Rynck and Bram Verschuere

Public Management Review, 2021, vol. 23, issue 10, 1456-1478

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2020.1764083

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