慈善组织的可持续发展研究——基于2014~2018年慈善基金会面板数据的实证分析

Research on the Sustainability of Charitable Organizations:An Empirical Analysis Based on the Panel Data of Charitable Foundations(2014-2018)

追求宏观可持续发展已是全球共识,其实现有赖于组织载体自身的可持续,“找回组织”构成近年来可持续研究的重要方向。但目前对慈善组织可持续发展尚缺乏系统研究,影响其可持续的具体要素及其作用机制尚不清楚。在整合组织生态论、资源依赖理论和策略管理理论的基础上,文章构建多维理论框架,并通过分析469家慈善基金会的面板数据(2014~2018年)发现,区域人均GDP越高、组织收入来源结构越多元、组织人员规模越小、行政成本投入越高,组织财务可持续的可能性越大,但财务可持续并不能保证组织能够持续追求公共使命。

It has been a global consensus to achieve macro-level sustainability,which depends on the sustainability of the core carrier organization.Recently,retrieving the organization’s narrative is an important theme of sustainability research.However,there is a lack of systematic research on the sustainability of charitable organizations,and the specific elements and mechanisms that affect their sustainability are still unclear.This paper constructs a multifaceted research framework based on the theory of organizational ecology,resource dependence theory,and strategic management theory.By analyzing the panel data of 469 charitable foundations(2014–2018),this paper finds that the higher the regional GDP per capita,the more diversified the structure of the organization’s income sources,the smaller the organization’s staff size,and the higher the administrative costs,and the greater the likelihood that the organization will be financially sustainable.But financial sustainability does not guarantee that an organization can continue to pursue its public mission.