%0 Journal Article
%T The Bumpy Road of Nonprofit Creation: An Examination of Start
%A Fredrik O. Andersson
%J Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
%@ 1552-7395
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0899764018785464
%X New nonprofit organizations are formed through a multifaceted process, and along the way, founding nonprofit entrepreneurs are likely to encounter various problems. This research note examines the extent to which 77 nascent nonprofit entrepreneurs encountered start-up problems during the earliest phase of the formation process, what types of problems they encountered, and how these problems impacted their attempt to start up a new nonprofit. The results indicate successful and unsuccessful nascent nonprofit entrepreneurs do not differ in terms of how many start-up problems they encountered. However, the type of the problems encountered had an effect on start-up success; two had negative effects (financial and information problems), and one had positive effects (regulatory problems). Ultimately, many attempts to found a new nonprofit are unsuccessful, indicating a need for researchers and those advising nascent nonprofit entrepreneurs to learn more about start-up problems and how to handle them
%K nonprofit entrepreneurship
%K nonprofit entrepreneur
%K nonprofit creation
%K start-up problems
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0899764018785464