2008/12/23 by Paul Dunn · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · Decision Sciences · #Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering #Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting #Ethics in Business and Education
paper · doi:10.1177/0899764008326770
openalex publication_date 2008/12/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
What should a not-for-profit do when a benefactor whom the not-for-profit has voluntarily and publicly honored becomes tainted as a result of a scandal? This article outlines a typology of donors and donations and using stakeholder theory and resource dependency identifies three external pressures (value incongruence, coalescence, and visibility) and two internal constraints (economic need and organizational commitment) that would entice a not-for-profit to adopt any one of three strategies: return the money and remove the public acknowledgment, keep the money but remove the acknowledgment, or keep the money and continue to honor the donor.