Facing Newness and Smallness: A Multiple Case Study of Nonprofits Creating Schools
This paper utilizes the literature on liability of newness and smallness to examine new nonprofit school venture creation and explore what challenges new school ventures face. We ask the following research questions: What challenges and obstacles do new nonprofit school ventures face? How do new no...
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This paper utilizes the literature on liability of newness and smallness to examine new nonprofit school venture creation and explore what challenges new school ventures face. We ask the following research questions: What challenges and obstacles do new nonprofit school ventures face? How do new nonprofit school ventures manage to maneuver, mitigate, or overcome these challenges and obstacles? To answer these questions, we conducted a comparative case study of three nonprofit organizations operating schools in Sweden. Our material consisted of semi-structured interviews and archival documents. The article illuminates two salient challenges for new school ventures: the need for legitimacy from a diverse set of stakeholders and the marshalling of sufficient resources. To cope with these challenges, the organizations combined an outward conformist strategy with an inward resource replacement strategy. Moreover, even though all ventures experienced obstacles, the character and magnitude of these obstacles differed depending on their mode of emergence.
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| spelling | doaj.art-d2c2a174c8b54befa760463fc433e7bb2023-04-23T13:43:40ZengMidwest Public Affairs ConferenceJournal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs2381-37172023-04-01Facing Newness and Smallness: A Multiple Case Study of Nonprofits Creating SchoolsEbba Henrekson0Fredrik Andersson1Marie Cederschiöld University Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) This paper utilizes the literature on liability of newness and smallness to examine new nonprofit school venture creation and explore what challenges new school ventures face. We ask the following research questions: What challenges and obstacles do new nonprofit school ventures face? How do new nonprofit school ventures manage to maneuver, mitigate, or overcome these challenges and obstacles? To answer these questions, we conducted a comparative case study of three nonprofit organizations operating schools in Sweden. Our material consisted of semi-structured interviews and archival documents. The article illuminates two salient challenges for new school ventures: the need for legitimacy from a diverse set of stakeholders and the marshalling of sufficient resources. To cope with these challenges, the organizations combined an outward conformist strategy with an inward resource replacement strategy. Moreover, even though all ventures experienced obstacles, the character and magnitude of these obstacles differed depending on their mode of emergence. http://jpna.org/index.php/jpna/article/view/840Nonprofit SchoolsEducation EntrepreneurshipLiability of NewnessLiability of SmallnessSweden |
| spellingShingle | Ebba Henrekson Fredrik Andersson Facing Newness and Smallness: A Multiple Case Study of Nonprofits Creating Schools Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs Nonprofit Schools Education Entrepreneurship Liability of Newness Liability of Smallness Sweden |
| title | Facing Newness and Smallness: A Multiple Case Study of Nonprofits Creating Schools |
| title_full | Facing Newness and Smallness: A Multiple Case Study of Nonprofits Creating Schools |
| title_fullStr | Facing Newness and Smallness: A Multiple Case Study of Nonprofits Creating Schools |
| title_full_unstemmed | Facing Newness and Smallness: A Multiple Case Study of Nonprofits Creating Schools |
| title_short | Facing Newness and Smallness: A Multiple Case Study of Nonprofits Creating Schools |
| title_sort | facing newness and smallness a multiple case study of nonprofits creating schools |
| topic | Nonprofit Schools Education Entrepreneurship Liability of Newness Liability of Smallness Sweden |
| url | http://jpna.org/index.php/jpna/article/view/840 |
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