(2005) suggest that in order to understand the emergence of nonprofit and hybrid voluntary organizations, one has to explore the influence of the complexity of contextual factors surrounding their emergence. Although a number of other theoretical insights have been posited to help build our understanding of why nonprofits form (for example,
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