Abstract
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) play a critical role in addressing social ills like poverty, employment, and food insecurity; therefore, their growth prospects enhance their ability to address these social ills. Discovery of entrepreneurial opportunities amongst the agro-based NGOs has not got the desired attention, and it is the least researched area in social entrepreneurship. This study investigated the relationship between Entrepreneurial Opportunity Discovery Dimensions and Growth of Non-Governmental Organizations in Kenya. It employed correlation design and was anchored on the Kirznerian Entrepreneurship Theory. The target population was 135 agro-based NGOs in Kenya. A mixed-method approach was used, combined qualitative and quantitative techniques. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21 and Analysis of Moment Structures (AMOS graphic-25) aided in the analysis. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using AMOS and Simple linear regression analysis were the primary analysis techniques used to evaluate the relationship between entrepreneurial opportunity discovery dimensions and the growth of NGOs. The results indicated that alertness0.372, p=0.033)and prior knowledge (0.163, p=0.031) have a significant favorable influence on growth, while social networks 0.047, p=0.713) showed an insignificant effect on the growth of NGOs. Investing in acquiring alert individuals and helping them gain relevant knowledge in the 21sttechnologies and emerging issues can lead to increased NGO ability to continue serving the community effectively and be engines of development for the general good of Kenya.
Highlights
Non-governmental organizations world over, plays a critical role as intermediaries of aid between the funding community on one side and beneficiaries on the other side
Variance Inflation Factors (VIFs) was used to test for multicollinearity and the results showed that VIF values were all less than the threshold maximum value of 5.The VIFs for the three independent variables were found to range between 1.222 and 1.488 as indicated in Table 1, implying that, the three dimensions of Opportunity Discovery caused unique variance in the growth of agro based NGOs in Kenya .In this regard, the value and contribution of each dimension on growth was uniquely and separately assessed
The results on the measurement model analysis for opportunity discovery is summarized in table 1
Summary
Non-governmental organizations world over, plays a critical role as intermediaries of aid between the funding community on one side and beneficiaries on the other side. George, Parida, Lahti and Wincent (2016) assert that if a person's level of alertness is high, opportunities can be identified even without actively searching for them or by observing the phenomena This means that innovation within NGOs becomes vital in the workplace to enable them achieve competitive edge which leads to bigger opportunities. This can act as a catalyst that can make business, it requires excellent project managers who are motivated to innovate and discover opportunities in the agro based sector which has not gotten the desired attention and it is a least researched area in social entrepreneurship (Porter & Kramer, 2019). The rest of the study sections include literature review, research methodology, findings and conclusions
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