Need, Merit, Self‐Interest or Convenience? Exploring Aid Allocation Motives of Grassroots International NGOs

Davis, J. Merle; Swiss, Liam

doi:10.1002/jid.3505

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“…This study meets Brass et al's (2018) call for research that incorporates contextual conditions in analyses, and addresses longstanding claims that much of our knowledge of international voluntary action is based on a small number of large organisations (Davis, 2020;Davis and Swiss, 2020) and that cross-national research is needed particularly (Schmitz and Mitchell, 2022). Further research should examine longer-term trends in the extensity of overseas charitable activity.…”

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confidence: 56%

“…It focuses on charities registered with the respective regulator in each jurisdiction, and thus excludes certain forms of charities (e.g., some churches and chapels in England and Wales) and other nonprofit/voluntary/civil society organisations that operate internationally. The country-level covariates were carefully chosen based on prior empirical work (e.g., Clifford, 2016; Dupuy et al, 2016; Davis and Swiss, 2020) but can not be considered a complete list of relevant factors to the outcome. Relatedly, the cross-sectional research design precludes drawing causal interpretations from the findings.…”

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“…The World Bank (2022aBank ( , 2022b) captures country-level data on population size, income classification, and geographic region. We include measures of connections between the three charity jurisdictions and other countries: whether the country has English as an official and/or common language (Mayer and Zignago, 2011); whether it ever shared a colonial relationship with one of the jurisdictions; and the distance between the capital cities of the charity jurisdiction and a country (Davis and Swiss, 2020). The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) provide measures of political stability and absence of violence/terrorism, and of control of corruption (Kaufmann and Kraay, 2022).…”

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“…A number of studies have sought to identify and understand in which regions and countries overseas charities operate. Recent research on Canadian overseas charities revealed a strong clustering pattern in the geographic distribution of these organisations: a handful of countries received the majority of attention, and the probability of operating in a given country was similar across different organisation types, for example, small, medium, large (Davis, 2020; Davis and Swiss, 2020). Nunnenkamp et al (2009) found that the geographic patterns in the aid allocation behaviour of Swiss non-governmental organisations was highly similar to the allocation of ODA by the Swiss government.…”

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International charitable connections: Variation in the countries of operation of overseas charities

McDonnell,

Clifford

2023

J. int. comp. soc. policy

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Charities are long-established and increasingly prominent non-state actors in social policy. However, these organisations remain understudied within social policy research, particularly their presence in the delivery of global social policy. This paper provides new cross-national evidence about charities operating internationally. It makes use of a comprehensive administrative dataset covering the country of operation of every overseas charity registered in England and Wales, Australia, and Canada. The international connections of charities are extensive, and these organisations are much more likely to work in countries with shared colonial and linguistic ties, and less likely to work in those with poor governance or high levels of corruption. This paper goes beyond a binary focus on either “developing” or “developed” country contexts, and provides insight into the international connections of “non-elite” as well as “elite” social policy actors.

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Clifford

2023

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“…Statistical measures of fit indicate that the binary variable is preferred over the categorical measure. Still, INGOs are not a homogenous group (Davis & Swiss, 2020) and a battery of control variables account for differences between them.…”

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Biases in low‐information environments: Understanding for‐profit and non‐profit salary differentials in Haiti

DeMattee

Rutherford

2021

J of Intl Development

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The Global South contains low-information environments that impose information search costs on organisations. We compare explanations for how employers make decisions in these environments. To do so, we analyse salaries collected from employers in Haiti, including local and international non-profits and domestic and foreign businesses.Although preliminary findings suggest that international non-governmental organisations pay above-market salaries, accounting for alternative explanations from behavioural economics causes the organisational form's importance to dissipate. We find that anchoring and framing mechanisms separately influence decision-making. These findings direct us to focus more on the actions and tools managers use to make decisions in low-information environments.

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How do stakeholder groups make sense of sustainability: Analysing differences in the complexity of their cognitive frames

Preuss,

Fischer,

Arora

2023

Bus Strat Env

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Characterizing major sustainability issues as ‘grand challenges’ has led to a call for collaboration among heterogeneous stakeholder groups, not least in multi‐stakeholder initiatives (MSIs). Research into MSIs has made substantial progress in understanding their workings; yet, it is still criticized for remaining undertheorized, echoing a criticism of management studies generally as paying insufficient attention to the micro–macro divide. Hence, we examined differences between stakeholder groups in the complexity of their cognitive frames on the topic of sustainability. We analysed 265 cognitive frames across four stakeholder groups (business, government, NGO, education). Analysing these frames in terms of the two dimensions of cognitive complexity—differentiation and integration—we found statistically significant differences in frame complexity between stakeholder groups. These micro‐level cognitive differences can explain macro‐level problems in stakeholder engagement and communication. Hence, we conclude by discussing the implications of our findings for the enhancement of the effectiveness of MSIs.

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Need, Merit, Self‐Interest or Convenience? Exploring Aid Allocation Motives of Grassroots International NGOs

Cited by 8 publications

References 60 publications

International charitable connections: Variation in the countries of operation of overseas charities

International charitable connections: Variation in the countries of operation of overseas charities

Biases in low‐information environments: Understanding for‐profit and non‐profit salary differentials in Haiti

How do stakeholder groups make sense of sustainability: Analysing differences in the complexity of their cognitive frames

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