From Corporatist Security to Civil Society Creativity: The Nonprofit Sector in Austria

Heitzmann, Karin; Simsa, Ruth

doi:10.1007/978-3-322-80980-3_34

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“…We had also determined the percentage of associations with names that exhibit differences in language use and culture compared to Austria (17%). For those associations, it would have been necessary to modify the rule set, because although in both countries the same language is spoken, civil society landscapes differ considerably (Heitzmann and Simsa 2004;Zimmer et al 2004). With the unmodified rule set, we could correctly classify 64% of the German associations.…”

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Methods for Classifying Nonprofit Organizations According to their Field of Activity: A Report on Semi-automated Methods Based on Text

2019

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There are various methods for classifying nonprofit organizations (NPOs) according to their field of activity. We report our experiences using two semi-automated methods based on textual data: rule-based classification and machine learning with curated keywords. We use those methods to classify Austrian nonprofit organizations based on the International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations. Those methods can provide a solution to the widespread research problem that quantitative data on the activities of NPOs are needed but not readily available from administrative data, long high-quality texts describing NPOs' activities are mostly unavailable, and human labor resources are limited. We find that in such a setting, rule-based classification performs about as well as manual human coding in terms of precision and sensitivity, while being much more labor-saving. Hence, we share our insights on how to efficiently implement such a rule-based approach. To address scholars with a background in data analytics as well as those without, we provide non-technical explanations and open-source sample code that is free to use and adapt.

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Section: Rule-based Classificationmentioning

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Methods for Classifying Nonprofit Organizations According to their Field of Activity: A Report on Semi-automated Methods Based on Text

2019

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“…Besides, these NPOs provide services in a major field (concerning employment and total expenses) of the Austrian nonprofit sector where collaborative arrangements between NPOs and public institutions – mostly regulated by performance-based contracts – are widespread (Millner et al. 2021 ; Heitzmann and Simsa 2004 ; Neumayr et al. 2007 ; von Schnurbein and Hengevoss 2020 ).…”

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Coping with COVID-19 – Which Resilience Mechanisms Enabled Austrian Nonprofit Organizations to Weather the Pandemic Storm?

Stötzer

Kaltenbrunner

Grüb

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Schmalenbach J Bus Res

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic triggered a global crisis affecting the work and partially the existence of businesses, governments, administrations and nonprofit organizations (NPOs). The latter not only faced severe challenges themselves, but also play(ed) a major role in fighting the pandemic, especially those offering services in social and health care. Maintaining service delivery under pandemic conditions to serve the often vital needs of clients requires (organizational) resilience. This concept generally relates to the ability to withstand adversity, to adapt in a turbulent environment and respond to (disruptive) change. Based on a qualitative content analysis of 33 interviews with nonprofit executives, this paper explores the impact of the pandemic on Austrian NPOs active in health and social care in terms of contextual challenges faced. Our study contributes to (nonprofit) resilience research and extreme context research literature as it illustrates how NPOs coped with this disruptive extreme context. Our findings show which resilience mechanisms (i.e. all kinds of resilient behavior, resources and capabilities) were helpful in overcoming pandemic challenges and getting through these hard times.

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“…In 1934, as the era of Austro-Fascism set in, all associations linked with the Austrian Social Democratic Party were dissolved and their activities were forbidden. A major turning point was the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938; the whole sector was restructured, and associations with 'undesired' aims were either shut down or brought in line with nationalist goals (Heitzmann & Simsa, 2004).…”

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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Philanthropy

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From Corporatist Security to Civil Society Creativity: The Nonprofit Sector in Austria

Cited by 8 publications

References 2 publications

Methods for Classifying Nonprofit Organizations According to their Field of Activity: A Report on Semi-automated Methods Based on Text

Methods for Classifying Nonprofit Organizations According to their Field of Activity: A Report on Semi-automated Methods Based on Text

Coping with COVID-19 – Which Resilience Mechanisms Enabled Austrian Nonprofit Organizations to Weather the Pandemic Storm?

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