期刊名称：Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research
电子版ISSN：1920-9355
出版年度：2021
卷号：12
期号：2
DOI：10.29173/cjnser.2021v12n2a395
语种：English
出版社：Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing
摘要：The question of when a new nonprofit is founded has not been pursued with sufficient precision. Specifically, a fundamental challenge facing any nonprofit researcher planning to detect, isolate, and analyze new nonprofits is that nonprofit founding is a process, not a discrete event. This study uses administrative data that includes three different founding indicators from more than 4,000 arts organizations, supplemented with survey data from 242 organizations, to illustrate some of the problems inherent in treating the founding process as one discrete event. It also elevates the voices of founders to demonstrate their conceptualization of the concept and offer insights into the multidimensionality of founding.
