Social Donations Research Articles

The impact of donation subsidy of remanufactured products on Manufacturer's pricing-production decisions and performances

Realization of value of remanufactured products through social donations is evident in practice. Many companies donate products to meet their corporate social responsibilities, reduce pressure on government resources and improve social welfare. Donation behavior has a positive impact and is supported by government's subsidy incentive. This paper introduces donation subsidy for remanufactured products and formulates a two-period dynamic model to investigate the impact of donation subsidy on production and pricing decisions. We explore whether and under what conditions introducing subsidy policy improves the environmental performance, whilst increasing the economic performance. The results showed that the remanufactured products only for sale is a special example of the remanufactured products available for both sale and donation, namely, donations of remanufactured products are absent when government subsidy incentive is invalid. Donation subsidy increases the second-period quantity of new products and donation quantity of remanufactured products and decreases sale quantity of remanufactured products. A sufficiently high subsidy increases the first-period quantity of new products. Overall, introducing donation subsidy of remanufactured products expands the demand for both the new and remanufactured products and leads to the premium effect of remanufactured products. When the cost of new products is low, introducing donation subsidy for remanufactured products is an economic and environmental “win-win” strategy. When the cost of new products is moderate, the government can adjust the subsidy price to achieve the desired economic and environmental performances. The above two situations exist a unique optimal subsidy price which improves the manufacturer's profit and achieves the best environment. For the high-cost products, the improvement of economic profit is at the expense of environment.

Space, Time, and Hurricanes: Investigating the Spatiotemporal Relationship Among Social Media Use, Donations, and Disasters

Social media is generated both in space and time, and in the context of disaster situations it can provide minute-by-minute and location-by-location awareness of the event and users’ concerns and feelings about crises. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between social media data, web donations, and traditional media coverage. We start by examining the temporal relationships, then move on to spatial relationships and patterning. Finally, we explore spatiotemporal patterns, examining the confluence of these patterns. Our results indicate that social media can be used as an indicator of both spatial and temporal patterns of real world events such as donations to a large not-for-profit. Our models can be used to make recommendations to managers about how to target marketing messaging appropriately given the current state of social media.

Geração e distribuição de riqueza em entidades sem fins lucrativos de assistência social de Blumenau

Non-profit organizations exist all over the world and they have an important role to the economy. These are not aimed at profits and they appeared to develop initiatives of social aspects. The main goal of this research is to check how the wealth is generated and distributed by the non-profits that are enrolled in the Welfare Assistance Council in Blumenau city. This data was gotten through a qualitative, descriptive and documentary research based on analysis of published financial statements of a sample consisting of nineteen non-profit Welfare Assistance Organizations. The results showed that: a) To maintain their activities most institutions rely on resources coming from social grants, partnerships and donations; b) The added value distributed represents more than fifty percent of the total proceeds in a large number of institutions; c) in most organizations the biggest share of the wealth distribution was used to the workers payment; d) a low percentage of the wealth is to lenders and government. As a general rule, most organizations presented a very low rate of retentions for themselves because they do not seek profits. Their goals are related to social services activities.

The policy environment of private higher education in China: a discussion based upon property ownership rights

The reemergence and growth of private higher education institutions (HEIs) represent one of the most significant developments in Chinese higher education over recent decades. Against a macroeconomic background of decentralization, this phenomenon is essentially fuelled by a broad spectrum of political and socioeconomic forces. This study sets out with the primary aim of discussing the current policy environment constraints faced by different types of private HEIs based upon a theoretical framework of property ownership rights. This is undertaken through a comparative analysis with HEIs in the United States, as well as case studies on three different types of private HEIs in China (accredited private universities, independent colleges and Sino-foreign colleges). Recommendations are offered on the key issues aimed at overcoming the difficulties encountered by such institutions; these include transfer rights, income rights, government subsidies, access to bank loans and tax-exempted social donations. The government in China has adopted an incremental approach to the regulation of the private higher education sector, thereby providing ad hoc solutions to problems encountered along the way; however, within a mutually understood framework of action, a system of clear property ownership rights is essential to the practical coordination of the activities of the economic actors.

NPO Fundraising Strategies in Transformation: A Case Study of the United Way of Taiwan

AbstractThis article examines the transformation of the fundraising strategies of the United Way of Taiwan (UWT) from organizational change theory and resource dependency theory. At the same time, it considers the state and significance of nonprofit intermediary organizations in Taiwan that are engaged in charity fundraising and redistribution. The study focuses on the following questions: in order to reasonably distribute social donations among the poor and disadvantaged, how should the UWT effectively raise social resources? What adjustments to its developmental and fundraising strategies should the organization make in response to changes in the external environment? In a Taiwanese charitable donation market that has grown to roughly 50 billion yuan per year, how can the UWT compete or cooperate with other NPOs to increase its fundraising space? The study found that due to considerations of its institutional environment, the UWT focused on attaining legality and legitimacy during its formation. It also found that the change and growth segments of the organizational life cycle were visible in the UWT’s shifts in governance, in personnel, and in its overall development. At the same time, changes made to the UWT’s fundraising strategy demonstrated the organization’s control over resource dependency. Lastly, the study finds that in terms of fundraising strategy, the UWT faces the several challenges of expanding its resource network from the Taiwan’s North to its Middle and South, limiting its dependence on corporate resources, expanding its access to volunteer resources, social services groups and governments, and maintaining its collaborative partnerships.

Instrumental Stakeholder Theory in Turbulent Environments: An Empirical Testing using Political and Social Donations

In this paper we empirically tested the instrumental stakeholder theory using firm donation to government and to community as proxy for stakeholder relationship intensity. Two models were applied to a sample of 339 publicly traded firms in Brazil using different performance indicators. In the first model, a multiple regression model estimated the effects of establishing political and social stakeholder relations on firm performance, by comparing donating firms to a control group of non-donating firms. The second model used structural equation modeling to test the mediating effects of stakeholder relationship intensity between firm and industry-level stakeholder orientations and performance on donating firms. In both tested models, our results indicate that instrumental theory hypothesis did not hold for our data. However, findings suggest that the market perceives stakeholder management as a firm cost, and that stakeholder relationship intensity can be explained by a one-dimension construct, measured by firm level indicators that describe the organizational context.

Social donation and university development: a comparative analysis between China’s and America’s endowment for public education

Social donation is a means for individuals, government organizations, and non-government organizations (NGOs) to provide public products and services for society. Seeking social donation is vital in the improvement of the university. This paper probes into the relationship between social donation and university development by comparing social donation levels and practices in China with those in the U.S. The main reasons why social donations in Chinese universities are relatively low are as follows: (1) independent NGOs have not been formed; (2) the system and mechanism of social donation are not perfect, and (3) many restricting factors of social culture still exist in China.