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How and When Socially Entrepreneurial Nonprofit Organizations Benefit From Adopting Social Alliance Management Routines to Manage Social Alliances.

Liu, G., Ko, W.W. and Chapleo, C., 2018. How and When Socially Entrepreneurial Nonprofit Organizations Benefit From Adopting Social Alliance Management Routines to Manage Social Alliances. Journal of Business Ethics, 151 (2), 497-516.

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DOI: 10.1007/s10551-016-3231-6

Abstract

Social alliance is defined as the collaboration between for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Building on the insights derived from the resource-based theory, we develop a conceptual framework to explain how socially entrepreneurial nonprofit organizations (SENPOs) can improve their social alliance performance by adopting strategic alliance management routines. We test our framework using the data collected from 203 UK-based SENPOs in the context of cause-related marketing campaign-derived social alliances. Our results confirm a positive relationship between social alliance management routines and social alliance performance. We also find that relational mechanisms, such as mutual trust, relational embeddedness, and relational commitment, mediate the relationship between social alliance management routines and social alliance performance. Moreover, our findings suggest that different types of social alliance motivation can influence the impact of social alliance management routines on different types of the relational mechanisms. In general, we demonstrate that SENPOs can benefit from adopting social alliance management routines and, in addition, highlight how and when the social alliance management routines-social alliance performance relationship might be shaped. Our study offers important academic and managerial implications, and points out future research directions.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:0167-4544
Uncontrolled Keywords:Social enterprise; Nonprofit organization; Social alliance; Relational mechanisms; Strategic alliance; Cause-related marketing campaign
Group:Bournemouth University Business School
ID Code:24924
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:03 Nov 2016 16:39
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 14:00

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