caa a22 4500 475829824 CHVBK 20180406123838.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008927910415 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008927910415 Struyk Raymond Transition Policy Network, Jokai utca 34, H-1065, Budapest, Hungary aut Sustaining Think Tanks in the Former Soviet Bloc [Elektronische Daten] [Raymond Struyk] Think tanks in the former Soviet bloc face the stark challenge of sustainability. To survive and prosper, they have to be increasingly entrepreneurial and business-like and have to actively seek contracts from government and the international donor community. In this context, this paper discusses the diversification strategies of four think tanks identified to be particularly entrepreneurial in developing new lines of work. This includes commercial activities similar to those of consulting firms, and tapping the business community for donations by offering seminars or other products. The paper reviews how these institutions identified and assessed various opportunities, and how they promoted a new line of work. It also explores the rewards—financial and other—and the challenges that are created by the new types of work within the organizations. International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University, 2000 public policy institutes nationallicence think tanks nationallicence sustainability nationallicence Eastern Europe nationallicence Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 11/3(2000-09-01), 277-289 0957-8765 11:3<277 2000 11 11266 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008927910415 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008927910415 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Struyk Raymond Transition Policy Network, Jokai utca 34, H-1065, Budapest, Hungary aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 11/3(2000-09-01), 277-289 0957-8765 11:3<277 2000 11 11266 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer