This paper explores Knowledge Management (KM) practices for use with portal technologies in NonGovernmental Organizations (NGOs). The aim is to help NGOs become true Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). In order to deal with more donors (at the top) and more beneficiaries (at the bottom), NGOs working in Humanitarian Aid and Social Development increasingly need systems to manage the creation, ac...

Introduction Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are now recognized as key third sector actors on the landscapes of development, human rights, humanitarian action, environment, and many other areas of public action, from the post-2004 tsunami reconstruction efforts in Indonesia, India, Thailand, and Sri Lanka, to the 2005 Make Poverty History campaign for aid and trade reform and developing c...

This paper aims at investigating the resource-seeking internationalization process of an international nongovernmental organization (INGO) from point view. INGOs have received scant attention in business literature, despite their relevance almost every aspect aid and development as actors global governance. The research question addresses issue whether or not can follow a path similar to firms ...

Prior studies show how race, class, and gender matter for worker identities within organizations, but there is an opportunity to focus on nationality class background nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Using evidence from ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviews, organizational documents at a small NGO in Kenya, I mediate workers assign accomplish tasks. My results suggest that process of...

I October 2001, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed a conference of humanitarian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Washington, D.C. There, he remarked “I want you to know that I have made it clear to my staff here and to all of our ambassadors around the world that I am serious about making sure we have the best relationship with the NGOs who are such a force multiplier for us,...

This research project is designed to understand the relationship between states and Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs), especially how they influence one another. In this study, I argue that the theoretical relationship between states’ foreign policy behaviors and the behavior of NGO is dynamic and conditional, with the influence of NGOs on states’ behaviors depending on the host states’ regi...

 Inter-organizational collaboration has been linked to a range of important outcomes for collaborating organizations. The strategy literature emphasizes the way in which collaboration between organizations results in the sharing of critical resources and facilitates knowledge transfer. The learning literature argues that collaboration not only transfers existing knowledge among organiza...