Institutionalization or interaction: Which organizational factors help community?based initiatives acquire government support?

Increasingly, Western local governments are dealing with community-based initiatives (CBIs) of citizens providing public services. Municipalities possess critical resources CBIs generally lack, including subsidies, buildings, and exposure. There is still little knowledge on CBIs' factors for government support. Therefore, this study adopts an organizational perspective distinguishing among institutionalization (intraorganizational, e.g., size democratic legitimacy) interaction (interorganizational, boundary spanning leadership [BSL]) the support obtain from government. Analyzing large N data (N = 2331) in six countries by using structural equation modeling, we found that related to more support, whereas less significant. More specifically, stronger relationships BSL linking social capital than formalization development infrastructure, much-discussed legitimacy CBIs, suggesting a limited interest topic as factor