Transnational NGOs: A Cross-Sectoral Analysis of Leadership Perspectives

International NGO Centralization and Leader-Perceived Effectiveness

“…Proportionate stratified random sampling with replacement was employed to create the sample. The overall response rate was about 68% (Hermann et al, 2012).…”

“…Confidentiality was ensured and most of the interview questions were open ended to encourage the leaders to speak candidly and freely in their own words. The leaders' interview transcripts were coded in a qualitative data analysis software by an interdisciplinary coding team, who achieved a high intercoder agreement (Hermann et al, 2012).…”

“…In other words, although there has been serious thinking about the external relations and impacts of INGOs, “we know surprisingly little about them as organizations ” (Stroup & Wong, 2013, p. 163). Case in point, besides several noteworthy efforts in the last decade that adopted a managerial perspective to study INGOs as organizations, such as Syracuse University’s Transnational NGO Initiative (Hermann et al, 2012), theoretical insights and empirical evidence about the influence of INGOs’ structural characteristics on their performance remain limited. This is an important gap not only because INGOs rely on their structures to perform prominent roles across the globe but also because research on the link between organizational structure and performance has established that the link may vary widely by context (Andrews, Boyne, Law, & Walker, 2009).…”

Between Power and Irrelevance: The Future of Transnational NGOs

“…Between Power and Irrelevance: The Future of Transnational NGOs (TNGOs) is a distillation of nearly two decades of insights from three founding members of the TNGO Initiative at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. The TNGO Initiative's research efforts (e.g., Hermann et al, 2012) have benefited many TNGO researchers including myself (e.g., Tran, 2020), many of whose findings are reflected in this book. The book also features an Afterword by Barney Tallack, former director of strategy at Oxfam International.…”

Transnational NGOs and Human Rights in a Post-9/11 World

“…While the semi-structured interviews covered issues of governance, effectiveness, accountability, networking, and leadership, the primary focus here is on evidence speaking to the NGOs' responses to the events of and subsequent to 9/11. The broader study 3 included interviews with 152 leaders of transnational NGOs based in the United States (Hermann et al 2010). A basic population of transnational NGOs was determined based on organizations rated for financial health by Charity Navigator (www.charitynavigator.com).…”