The aim for nonprofit organization is to make the development of our society healthy through the quality change of individual life, not seeking profit. The core condition of the nonprofit organization's continuance is the fund contributed by governmen...
The aim for nonprofit organization is to make the development of our society healthy through the quality change of individual life, not seeking profit. The core condition of the nonprofit organization's continuance is the fund contributed by government's assistance, collections of donations and its own profitable business. As one of the nonprofit organizations, the social welfare organization which is the subject of this study depends on government for its main financial support. However, the assistance from government is limited to minimum level, and the sufficient fund has to be donated in order to provide beneficiaries with welfare service of good quality.
Therefore the marketing concept of profit organization has to be introduced into nonprofit organization, and the study on giving behavior and activity of relational fund raising.
This study is aware of the importance of continuative donation, and attempts to look into the main cause of donators' giving behavior and relational continuance intention in marketing.
First of all, the constructs as organizational identification, trust, and giving identification are proposed to have influence on the relationship fundraising. Organizational factors which have influence on organizational identification and trust are awareness, performance, morals, and service quality. Individual factors which affect on the giving identification are self-esteem, utility, altruistic motive, and beneficiaries empathy.
Based on the discussions on the constructs, seventeen hypotheses are proposed to analyze the relations among the variables, and the model for relationship fundraising is proposed integrating those hypothetical path.
In order to test the hypotheses, measurement tools are developed and data are collected through the questionnaire. Due to the complexity of the paths, structural equations are used to test the propositions. The path model and the structural model are found to be relevant based on the generally required acceptance level.
The consequences of the hypothesis are as follows:
First, performance, morals, and service quality have influence on organizational identification, and it is shown that antecedents which affects trust are organization morals and service quality.
Second, awareness doesn't have influence on organizational identification, and even trust. Moreover, it is concluded that performance doesn't have influence on trust.
Third, in case of the individual antecedents, giving identification is affected by self-esteem, utility, altruistic motive, and beneficiaries empathy.
Forth, giving identification affects organizational identification, and organizational identification affects trust.
Fifth, giving identification, organizational identification, and trust have influence on the relational continuance intention.
The variable which mostly affects the donators' relational continuance intention is trust. It is evident that organizational identification explains the donators' relational continuance intention effectively because giving identification affects organizational identification and organizational identification affects reliance on organization. The variable which mostly affects giving identification is exchange utility, the variable which mostly affects organizational identification is service quality, and organization morals have influence on trust.
The study on the influential variables of simple giving is expected to extend through this model development of relationship fundraising.
Also, it is possible to make potential donators into actual donators by practicing customer-oriented, society-oriented, and relation-oriented service, and by applying the marketing thoughts into the management of welfare organization.
This study has some limitations in establishing its theory because of preceding studies. In addition, there are some constraints in generalizing the results of this study because of regions limited to Gwangju, Gwangyang, Yeusu and Suncheon where the data were collected.
At last, there is expected to be various studies on this area because marketing approach to nonprofit organization is at the stage of its beginning.