From Direct Involvement to Indirect Control? A Multilevel Analysis of Factors Influencing Chinese Foundations’ Capacity for Resource Mobilization

Wei, Qian

doi:10.1007/s11266-017-9924-3

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“…Regions with higher level of economic development might have provided more supply of middle-class and wealthy individuals, as well as private corporations, which are the major sources of private donations to nonprofits. In fact, Wei (2017) found that provincial marketization level is significantly correlated with total revenues of foundation in China. The percentage of population that received higher education in a region is also thought to be another important regional variable that might influence the supply of donors in the region.…”

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“…To capture the variance of dependent variable as much as possible, and due to the fact that foundations in the same region might be affected by the same regional factors, we also included several provincial level economic and political predictors as control variables, such as marketization level, percentage of population received higher education, and government expenditure per capita (Wei, 2017). According to Wang et al (2017), the marketization index measures the level of economic marketization at provincial level in China, which is composed of five aspects of the economy: government-market relationship, development of private sector, development of product markets, development of factor markets, and development of market intermediaries and legal environment.…”

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The Contingent Value of Political Connections on Donations to Chinese Foundations: Exploring the Moderating Role of Transparency

Cheng

Zeng

2020

Administration & Society

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Existing studies assume that the value of political connections is homogeneous to different types of nonprofits and seldom consider their interplay with other accountability mechanisms. Based on a multilevel analysis of 2,085 foundations in China, this study builds and tests a theoretical framework of the contingent value of political connections to nonprofits, treating transparency as a moderator for the relationship between political connections and donations. Our findings suggest that while transparency is positively associated with the amount of donations obtained by foundations, political connections can help foundations obtain more donations only when their transparency score is higher than a certain threshold.

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The Contingent Value of Political Connections on Donations to Chinese Foundations: Exploring the Moderating Role of Transparency

Cheng

Zeng

2020

Administration & Society

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“…An early empirical study on Chinese NPOs was a descriptive analysis from survey data (Deng, 2001). Zhu (2012) used primary data and regression models to study Chinese think tanks; Ni and Zhan (2017) and Wei (2017) utilized secondary datasets and regressions to assess the impact of governmental control on the performance of Chinese charitable foundations. Mixed methods are rarely seen in Chinese NPO research (yet, see Li, Tang, & Lo, 2017).…”

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Turning Challenges into Opportunities: Advancing Studies of Nonprofit Organizations in China

Chen

2018

Chinese Public Administration Review

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Chinese Public Administration Review CPARThis symposium is a collection of articles that showcases how to improve research on Chinese NPOs. We include articles that incorporate new theoretical frameworks and empirical analyses, and that draw upon novel data, such as the Research Infrastructure of Chinese Foundations (RICF). These articles provide important insights into addressing the main challenges of studying China's NPOs -the lack of a managerial focus, and sparse empirical data which has resulted in very few research strategies. The articles in this symposium illustrate how empirical studies and increased focus on managerial issues could contribute to improving research on Chinese NPOs and help address questions of general concern in public administration.

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“…However, these positive effects are largely constrained within the nonprofits that focus on non-politically sensitive topics (J. Ma & DeDeo, 2018;Wei, 2017).…”

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Funding nonprofits in a networked society: Toward a network framework of government support

2020

Nonprofit Mgmnt & Ldrshp

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This study considers the effects of government funding to nonprofits from a network perspective. By analyzing a novel, 12-year panel dataset from the People's Republic of China, I find no evidence that government funding to a nonprofit crowds out private donations to the same organization. However, I find a substantial crosswise crowding-in effect at the ego network level: an increase of one Chinese Yuan in government funding to a nonprofit's neighbor organizations in board interlocking network can increase the private giving to the nonprofit by 0.4 Chinese Yuan. A nonprofit's network position measured by Katz centrality negatively associates with its private giving. The results suggest that, if we consider the funding system from a holistic network perspective, government should support nonprofits with confidence because of the spillover effect. Moreover, a nascent nonprofit cannot increase donor's confidence by only borrowing board members from renowned organizations.

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From Direct Involvement to Indirect Control? A Multilevel Analysis of Factors Influencing Chinese Foundations’ Capacity for Resource Mobilization

Cited by 27 publications

References 48 publications

The Contingent Value of Political Connections on Donations to Chinese Foundations: Exploring the Moderating Role of Transparency

The Contingent Value of Political Connections on Donations to Chinese Foundations: Exploring the Moderating Role of Transparency

Turning Challenges into Opportunities: Advancing Studies of Nonprofit Organizations in China

Funding nonprofits in a networked society: Toward a network framework of government support

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