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From Home to Heaven: The Spatial Imaginaries of Nonprofit Organizations

We investigate how nonprofit organizations (NPOs) construct imaginaries of their premises, their local environment, and beyond.

Nonprofits for Cohesive Cities: Neighborhood Characteristics, Organizational Practices, and their Effects on Social ...

Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) play an important role in strengthening urban communities by bringing people together and linking citizens with institutional resources. In our study, we wanted to…

A Test for the Welfare-Partnership: Austria’s Nonprofit Human Service Organizations in Times of Covid-19

The pandemic has impeded Austrian NPHSOs on multiple levels: service delivery, income streams, costs, and human resources. To analyze the consequences, we tackle two questions:

Charitable Giving in Times of Covid-19: Do Crises Forward the Better or the Worse in Individuals?

Why did some individuals react to the Covid-19 crisis in a pro-social manner, whereas others withdrew from society? To shed light onto this question, we investigated changing patterns of charitable…

New edition just published: Handbuch der Nonprofit-Organisation

Der NPO-Klassiker für alle Aktiven im NPO-Management. Hrsg.: Michael Meyer, Ruth Simsa, Christoph Badelt

Business-Like and Still Serving Society?

Investigating the Relationship Between NPOs Being Business-Like and Their Societal Roles.

Summer activities of the institute members

Conferences and Summer School

Toward a Better Understanding of Social Origins Theory: A Historical Narrative of Vienna’s Civil Society Organizations

Social origins theory explains variation between civil societies by power relations between socioeconomic classes and by path dependencies. There have been few systematic reflections on which…

Inequality in Volunteering: Building a New Research Front

Volunteering research focuses predominantly on predicting participation in volunteering, proceeding from the quasi-hegemonic foundation of resource theory and dominant-status theory. Empirical…

“Being” or “becoming”? Exploring organizational myths from “talents” to “disabled”

In early May, NPO Austria invited Daniel Semper and Alexander Fleischmann to discuss with practitioners from a broad array of NPOs their recent research: A model that describes how institutional myths…