Exploring the Moderators of the Relationship between Nonprofit Sector Size and Its Societal Impact: A Meta-Analysis
Loading...
Persistent link to this item
Statistics
View StatisticsJournal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Title
Exploring the Moderators of the Relationship between Nonprofit Sector Size and Its Societal Impact: A Meta-Analysis
Authors
Published Date
2023
Publisher
VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
Type
Article
Abstract
Assessing the impact of the nonprofit sector on society has been one of the most fundamental yet challenging questions in public and nonprofit management scholarship. Built on a recent systematic literature review published in VOLUNTAS (Cheng & Choi, 2022), our meta-analysis synthesizes the existing literature from multiple disciplines and fills this critical knowledge gap. Using 357 effects from 29 studies, our moderation analysis shows that a larger nonprofit sector has a more positive impact on society especially when the impact is political and measured at the city/county level. Studies that used fixed effects models and quasi-experimental designs also found a more positive societal impact of the nonprofit sector. However, the choice of sector size measure, the selection of impact measure, the use of lagged explanatory variables, publication bias, and publication time seem not to matter.
Keywords
Description
Related to
Replaces
License
Collections
Series/Report Number
Funding information
Isbn identifier
Doi identifier
Previously Published Citation
Other identifiers
Suggested citation
Cheng, Yuan (Daniel); Hung, Chiako. (2023). Exploring the Moderators of the Relationship between Nonprofit Sector Size and Its Societal Impact: A Meta-Analysis. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/256517.
Content distributed via the University Digital Conservancy may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor. By using these files, users agree to the Terms of Use. Materials in the UDC may contain content that is disturbing and/or harmful. For more information, please see our statement on harmful content in digital repositories.