Social capital as a factor in networks and knowledge management among non-profits. Can you spare 15 minutes to contribute to a study?

15 minutes is all it will take you to complete this survey!

Romanian PhD student, Radmila Mikovic, is conducting research which explores the importance of social capital and networks among non-profits as a factor of effectiveness. In order to ensure a level of rigor to the research she is seeking responses to a survey from as many non-profit practitioners as possible. She writes:

My dearest colleagues and friends,

The reason I write to you is to kindly ask you to take participation in an online survey, I am conducting under my PhD research, titled: “The influence of social capital on knowledge management – evidence from the non-profit industry.” The survey is a cornerstone of my PhD research I pursue at the Faculty of Organisational Sciences, Belgrade University.

The importance of this research is two-fold. First, no one has ever done any similar research in the field of the non-profit industry. Second, no one has ever done such an in-depth analysis correlating all social capital elements, forms and dimensions with various knowledge management phases and maturity. To that end, the outcome of this research will impact not only the management science but will also significantly influence further social and professional development of the nonprofit organisations worldwide. The findings of the survey will be integrated in my PhD thesis and in the scientific paper. Both will be publicly available and I will be glad to share them with you.

Below is the link with the online survey. You just need to click on it and the survey will start. It will take you 15 minutes to read the instructions and answer all the questions. Answering is very easy as you will not need to write the answers but rather evaluate the proposed statements from 1 (complete disagreement) to 5 (complete agreement). You can work on it using various e-devices (computer, mobile, tablet, etc.). The questions are not of mandatory nature but I will highly appreciate answering them all as everything you say is of enormous importance for overall results of the survey. The survey will be open for a month, but “the sooner the better” approach would be the best option given your, probably, quite hectic daily agenda.

Finally, and very importantly, I would kindly like to ask you to suggest to me NGOs and NGO networks you know or cooperate with that could also participate in the survey. NGOs and NGO networks from the Western Balkans and the European Union are the focus of this survey but NGOs and NGO networks from other world regions are welcome as well. You may send me their e-mails and contacts and I will be more than glad to get into contact with them, keeping you cc. Otherwise, you can share with them this mail with survey, kindly asking them to take participation, keeping me cc so that I avoid cross posting.

To complete the survey, click here. Thank you for your time!

Radmila Mikovic