TY - JOUR
T1 - A development agenda, the donor dollar and voluntary failure
AU - Sutton, David
AU - Baskerville, Rachel
AU - Cordery, Carolyn
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Accounting, Business & Financial History on 23 June 2010, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09585206.2010.485749
PY - 2010/7
Y1 - 2010/7
N2 - This paper examines the success and failure of a once pre-eminent New Zealand charity – the Council of Organisations for Relief Service Overseas (CORSO). Delivering aid for government was a factor in its success in its early years, as was its broad membership base. Voluntary failure occurred when CORSO lost government support. It also lost donor support when international charities established a competitive donor ‘market’. Its supporters’ unwillingness to ‘buy-in’ to its mission change to focus on local poverty was another factor in its collapse. This case study employs a framework which extends Salamon's (1987) Salamon, L. 1987. Of market failure, voluntary failure and third-party government: Towards a theory of government–nonprofit relations in the modern welfare state. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 16(1/2): 29–49. to consider the influence of competition on voluntary failure.
AB - This paper examines the success and failure of a once pre-eminent New Zealand charity – the Council of Organisations for Relief Service Overseas (CORSO). Delivering aid for government was a factor in its success in its early years, as was its broad membership base. Voluntary failure occurred when CORSO lost government support. It also lost donor support when international charities established a competitive donor ‘market’. Its supporters’ unwillingness to ‘buy-in’ to its mission change to focus on local poverty was another factor in its collapse. This case study employs a framework which extends Salamon's (1987) Salamon, L. 1987. Of market failure, voluntary failure and third-party government: Towards a theory of government–nonprofit relations in the modern welfare state. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 16(1/2): 29–49. to consider the influence of competition on voluntary failure.
UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09585206.2010.485749
U2 - 10.1080/09585206.2010.485749
DO - 10.1080/09585206.2010.485749
M3 - Article
SN - 2155-286X
VL - 20
SP - 209
EP - 229
JO - Accounting, Business & Financial History
JF - Accounting, Business & Financial History
IS - 2
ER -