Virtual Institutions of Philanthropy Reconstructing the ‘Business of Giving’ in the Information Age (working title) First Year Report PhD Candidate: Vivian Elric Honoré 1st Supervisor: Pr Stephen Osborne 2nd Supervisor: Dr Neil Pollock ESRC 1+3 Studentship / Centre of Charitable Giving and Philanthropy (C-GAP) University of Edinburgh Business School Email: [email protected]
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Virtual Institutions of Philanthropy
Reconstructing the ‘Business of Giving’ in the Information Age (working title)
First Year Report
PhD Candidate: Vivian Elric Honoré1st Supervisor: Pr Stephen Osborne
2nd Supervisor: Dr Neil Pollock
ESRC 1+3 Studentship / Centre of Charitable Giving and Philanthropy (C-GAP)University of Edinburgh Business School
• Low uptake of ICTs in voluntary / philanthropic organisations (e.g. Burt & Taylor, 1999)
• Adopting ICTs as positive but disruptive (e.g. Bernholtz, 2009)
Research Question:
Does adopting networked ICTs improve the processes of philanthropic organisations or are they reformulating their practice?
Research Design- Data Collection
Two lines of enquiry are prompted by the research question:
Mapping the current organisations’ mode of philanthropy in relation to their degree of adoption of ICTs Enquiring on the process of adoption to determine what are the effects, if any, on the processes of the philanthropic organisation
Suggested data collection strategy:
Mixed-method, survey questionnaire (quantitative) and case study (qualitative)
Survey questionnaire based on Venkatraman’s (1990) model of conventional or transformational ICT usage and Gartner’s (2010) inventory of current ICTs
Case studies selected in order to provide comparison across modes of philanthropy and level of ICT usage
Additional case study of philanthropic organisation with no ICT usage to act as control
Comparison across 2 x 2 Matrix:
Building Theory:
Grounded Theory Method (Glaser and Strauss, 1967) Situational Analysis (Clarke, 200) Actor-Network Theory (ANT) (Latour, 1999)