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Resource Dependence Patterns and Organizational Behavior/Structure in Korean Nonprofit Organizations
Author(s) -
Seo JungWook
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
nonprofit management and leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.844
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1542-7854
pISSN - 1048-6682
DOI - 10.1002/nml.21235
Subject(s) - resource dependence theory , resource (disambiguation) , business , clarity , government (linguistics) , organizational behavior and human resources , dependency (uml) , resource acquisition is initialization , knowledge management , diversity (politics) , empirical research , organizational performance , resource allocation , marketing , economics , management , computer science , sociology , computer network , biochemistry , chemistry , linguistics , philosophy , software engineering , anthropology , epistemology
This article examines the relationships among the three dimensions of resource dependence patterns (RDPs) and organizational formalization and goals in nonprofit organizations (NPOs). These three RDPs (that is, the appearance of the financial resource inflow) are resource dependency, resource diversity, and resource competitiveness. The empirical findings suggest that high dependency on government funding (high resource dependency) is positively associated with organizational formalization, although resource diversity does not have any explanatory power on organizational behavior and structure, and that a very competitive environment for resource acquisition significantly affects goal setting in NPOs. In particular, resource competitiveness well explains goal clarity and goal change in NPOs. NPOs with high resource competitiveness present clearer organizational goals or missions and are likely to experience frequent goal change.