Stronger together: Building nonprofit resiliencethrough a network with a shared Missionand organizational humility

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Article

Publication Date

9-8-2023

Abstract

Nonprofit organizations increasingly face surprising and disruptive shocks, beyond financial setbacks, that challenge an organization's operations, long-term survival, and success. To continue to execute their mission, non-profits must be resilient. Despite the importance of resilience in nonprofits, more research is needed to understand the factors that build organizational resilience and how leaders can help promote resilience. We conducted a qualitative case study, consisting of 23 inter-views with organizational members and key partners, fieldwork, and archival information, of a documented resilient nonprofit organization. Our findings suggest that leaders can enhance resilience by gaining access to resources through collaboration, which is in line with previous theorizing. Our results add to previous research by providing a more nuanced understanding of how collaboration can facilitate resilience. Specifically, our findings suggest that resilience may be enhanced when organizational humility drives leaders to strategically constrain their network primarily to partners that share a common mission. Our research contributes predominantly to the organizational resilience literature, while offering more auxiliary contributions to the organizational humility literature. Further, our research offers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21590

Original Citation

Woznyj, H. J., Stewart, O. J., Beck, T. (2023). Stronger Together: Building Nonprofit Resilience through a Network with a Shared Mission and Organizational Humility. Nonprofit Management & Leadership..

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