Avoiding Bureaucratization and Mission Drift in Associations

Rothschild, Joyce; Chen, Katherine K.; Smith, David H.; Kristmundsson, Ómar H.

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“…Failures or shortcomings are not mentioned. However, it should be noted that just like other organizations, CBOs can be spaces where inequalities and discrimination are reproduced (Amis et al, 2020); they can drift away from their missions in various ways (Ebrahim et al, 2014); and CBOs can develop overdependence on funding sources (Bennett & Savani, 2011) or become over-bureaucratized, pushing out participatory, and egalitarian practices due to perceived pressures for efficiency and stability (Rothschild et al, 2016). Acknowledging the realities and complexities of community-based organizing, this paper focuses on the positive outcomes that CBOs proved to be capable of generating.…”

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The roles of community‐based organizations in socializing sustainable behavior: Examining the urban case of Budapest, Hungary

2023

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This research supports the argument that community‐based organizations (CBOs) can be effective vehicles to shift societal norms and expectations in order to facilitate co‐creation and acceptability of new and sustainable ways of living. CBOs are conceptualized as meso‐level entities where sustainable behavior can be socialized through not‐for‐profit and socioecological‐oriented approaches, a unique position in a market society. To learn what roles CBOs fulfill when providing space for peer interactions influencing sustainable behavior, a qualitative research study was carried out based on 21 interviews with key stakeholders from CBOs working in different sustainability‐related fields (mobility, food, energy, etc.) in the urban context of Budapest, Hungary. The grouping and interpretation of interview data show that the sampled urban CBOs can impact sustainable behavior through (1) raising members' awareness; (2) influencing everyday practices; and (3) providing space for non‐consumerist peer interactions. These impacts can be exercised through the three roles of translation, reinforcement, and contribution. Translation covers the practical‐cognitive (why it is important and how to do it) dimensions of peer interactions, while reinforcement and contribution are psychological‐emotional factors, the former being directed toward adopting individual practices (through positive reinforcement), the latter pointing to the collective, the common good to which one feels one is contributing. These results imply that sustainability‐oriented policymaking could support the sustainability transition by co‐designing systems of provisions together with the affected communities.

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The roles of community‐based organizations in socializing sustainable behavior: Examining the urban case of Budapest, Hungary

2023

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“…As a reaction, non-profits have taken different paths [60]. However, research into not-for-profit organisations also documents some flipsides of professionalisation: the danger of 'mission drift', less engagement by volunteers, or diminishing capacity of social capital production [61][62][63]. In part, these negative effects seem to rest on whether members or external staff are employed [59][60][61].…”

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Collective Renewable Energy Prosumers and the Promises of the Energy Union: Taking Stock

Horstink

Wittmayer

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A key strategy in the European Union’s ambition to establish an ‘Energy Union’ that is not just clean, but also fair, consists of empowering citizens to actively interact with the energy market as self-consumers or prosumers. Although renewable energy sources (RES) prosumerism has been growing for at least a decade, two new EU directives are intended to legitimise and facilitate its expansion. However, little is known about the full range of prosumers against which to measure policy effectiveness. We carried out a documentary study and an online survey in nine EU countries to shed light on the demographics, use of technology, organisation, financing, and motivation as well as perceived hindering and facilitating factors for collective prosumers. We identified several internal and external obstacles to the successful mainstreaming of RES prosumerism, among them a mismatch of policies with the needs of different RES prosumer types, potential organisational weaknesses as well as slow progress in essential reforms such as decentralising energy infrastructures. Our baseline results offer recommendations for the transposition of EU directives into national legislations and suggest avenues for future research in the fields of social, governance, policy, technology, and business models.

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Community Energy in Germany: From Technology Pioneers to Professionalisation under Uncertainty

Holstenkamp

2021

Renewable Energy Communities and the Low Carbon Energy Transition in Europe

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Avoiding Bureaucratization and Mission Drift in Associations

Cited by 4 publications

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The roles of community‐based organizations in socializing sustainable behavior: Examining the urban case of Budapest, Hungary

The roles of community‐based organizations in socializing sustainable behavior: Examining the urban case of Budapest, Hungary

Collective Renewable Energy Prosumers and the Promises of the Energy Union: Taking Stock

Community Energy in Germany: From Technology Pioneers to Professionalisation under Uncertainty

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