<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:contributor>Maggi, Rico</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Urrea Castaño, Gloria Cecilia</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2018-06-08</dc:date>
  <dc:description xmlns:ns0="xml" ns0:lang="en">Scarcity of funding and high competition among organizations are typical characteristics of the humanitarian setting, which  create high uncertainty for humanitarian organizations (HOs) regarding their ability to access and manage the required  donations for their operations. In contrast with past research, which usually considers that HOs have a passive role in the  donations process, the main contribution of this dissertation is to propose that HOs can have an active agency in this process.  HOs can follow strategies to secure the funding required to achieve their mission and to adequately manage the received  donations. Three different studies outline these strategies. Following an organizational perspective, the first study draws on  resource dependence theory (RDT) and relational embeddedness to investigate the strategies that HOs follow to reduce  uncertainty and to access financial resources from institutional donors (governmental agencies). The second and third studies  follow an individual perspective on donations. The second study investigates the use of crowdfunding as a new channel to raise  individual donations and the strategies HOs can use to potentiate online crowdfunding campaigns using transparency. The third  study considers operational strategies to manage individual time donations, i.e. volunteer management, in the case of a charity  storehouse that faces uncertainty regarding volunteer experience and congestion. To test the hypotheses and address the  research questions, this thesis uses a multi-method approach, including empirical analysis, case study, and simulation.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>https://susi.usi.ch/global/documents/318890</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://n2t.net/ark:/12658/srd1318890</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://susi.usi.ch/documents/318890/files/2018ECO006.pdf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/urn/urn:nbn:ch:rero-006-117398</dc:relation>
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  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>License undefined</dc:rights>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns1="xml" ns1:lang="en">Humanitarian organizations</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns2="xml" ns2:lang="en">Donations</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns3="xml" ns3:lang="en">Diversification</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns4="xml" ns4:lang="en">Crowdfunding</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns5="xml" ns5:lang="en">Transparency</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns6="xml" ns6:lang="en">Volunteer management</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>info:eu-repo/classification/udc/33</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xmlns:ns7="xml" ns7:lang="en">Strategies to access and manage donations for humanitarian operations</dc:title>
  <dc:type>http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>