caa a22 4500 606152717 CHVBK 20210128100550.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11266-014-9507-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11266-014-9507-5 Mitchell George Department of Political Science, The City College of New York, NAC 4/135, 10031, New York, NY, USA aut The Strategic Orientations of US-Based NGOs [Elektronische Daten] [George Mitchell] International studies theorists have sought to characterize the role of transnational NGOs in world affairs from a variety of bottom-up, top-down, and critical perspectives. Since transnational NGOs employ such a wide range of strategies in the pursuit of their missions, scholars often find it necessary to differentiate between different types of organizations and to predicate theoretical analyses on informal typologies. However, when these typologies are implicit or speculative scholarship risks mischaracterization and invalid generalization. This article contributes to NGO theory by deriving a formal typology of the strategies that US-based transnational NGOs employ in the pursuit of their missions. This typology provides an empirical basis for future theorization specifically accounting for heterogeneity in the strategic orientations of NGOs. Findings are based on a mixed-method analysis of in-depth interviews with more than 150 leaders of US-based transnational NGOs spanning all major sectors of NGO activity. International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University, 2014 Transnational NGOs nationallicence United States nationallicence Mixed-method nationallicence Elite interviews nationallicence Typology nationallicence Strategy nationallicence VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/5(2015-10-01), 1874-1893 0957-8765 26:5<1874 2015 26 11266 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9507-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9507-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mitchell George Department of Political Science, The City College of New York, NAC 4/135, 10031, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/5(2015-10-01), 1874-1893 0957-8765 26:5<1874 2015 26 11266