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Competing nonprofit organizations also collaborate
Author(s) -
York Alan,
Zychlinski Esther
Publication year - 1996
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.4130070104
Subject(s) - competition (biology) , turnover , business , independence (probability theory) , perspective (graphical) , affect (linguistics) , public relations , voluntary association , nonprofit organization , process (computing) , political science , management , sociology , economics , ecology , statistics , mathematics , communication , artificial intelligence , computer science , law , biology , operating system
Cooperation among voluntary organizations is examined from the perspective of an Israeli project in which local voluntary organizations formed a joint forum. An analysis of questionnaires filled in by members of nine such bodies (“roundtables”) shows that cooperation among voluntary organizations may be functional in nature and not necessarily based on common goals. The degree of independence of the organizations did not affect their cooperation, but it influenced the way they looked on the “convenor” (external change agent), who played an important role in the process of interorganizational cooperation. The authors show that competition and cooperation are not mutually exclusive among voluntary organizations.