Karner Dominik, Maier Florentine, Meyer Michael
Department of Management, Institute for Nonprofit Management, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria.
Voluntas. 2024;35(2):386-396. doi: 10.1007/s11266-023-00603-w. Epub 2023 Sep 15.
We investigate how nonprofit organizations (NPOs) construct imaginaries of their premises, their local environment, and beyond. Based on a qualitative analysis of the websites of 209 randomly sampled NPOs in a metropolitan region in Central Europe, we find four distinct spatial imaginaries: (1) The world polity imaginary constructs NPOs as a part of a spatial environment that is neatly divided into nation states, supranational structures, and subnational units. (2) In the world society imaginary, NPOs are active in blurred, fluid, and overlapping spaces such as networks, commercialized spaces, or natural habitats. (3) In a religious imaginary, the material world is complemented by a transcendental realm and categorized into spaces of the sacred and the evil. (4) Finally, in a lococentric imaginary, NPOs construct a dichotomy between "home" and the alien rest of the world. Each of these spatial imaginaries conveys distinctive ways of situating the organization in their spatial environment and implies specific organizational practices and emotional enchantments of space.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11266-023-00603-w.
我们研究非营利组织（NPO）如何构建其场所、当地环境及其他方面的想象。基于对中欧一个大都市地区随机抽取的209个NPO网站的定性分析，我们发现了四种不同的空间想象：（1）世界政体想象将NPO构建为空间环境的一部分，该空间环境被整齐地划分为民族国家、超国家结构和次国家单位。（2）在世界社会想象中，NPO活跃于模糊、流动和重叠的空间，如网络、商业化空间或自然栖息地。（3）在宗教想象中，物质世界由一个超验领域补充，并被分类为神圣和邪恶的空间。（4）最后，在以地方为中心的想象中，NPO构建了“家”与世界其他陌生地方之间的二分法。这些空间想象中的每一种都传达了将组织置于其空间环境中的独特方式，并暗示了特定的组织实践和对空间的情感魅力。
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