Nonprofit organizations increasingly face surprising and disruptive shocks, beyond financial setbacks, that challenge an organization's operations, long-term survival, and success. To continue to execute their mission, nonprofits must be resilient. Despite the importance of resilience in nonprofits, more research is needed to understand the factors that build organizational resilience and how leaders can help promote resilience. We conducted a qualitative case study, consisting of 23 interviews with organizational members and key partners, fieldwork, and archival information, of a documented resilient nonprofit organization. Our findings suggest that leaders can enhance resilience by gaining access to resources through collaboration, which is in line with previous theorizing. Our results add to previous research by providing a more nuanced understanding of how collaboration can facilitate resilience. Specifically, our findings suggest that resilience may be enhanced when organizational humility drives leaders to strategically constrain their network primarily to partners that share a common mission. Our research contributes predominantly to the organizational resilience literature, while offering more auxiliary contributions to the organizational humility literature. Further, our research offers practical guidance for how leaders of nonprofits can develop resilience in their organizations.

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共同更强：通过具有共同使命和组织谦逊的网络建立非营利组织的复原力

除了财务挫折之外，非营利组织越来越多地面临令人惊讶和破坏性的冲击，这些冲击对组织的运营、长期生存和成功提出了挑战。为了继续履行其使命，非营利组织必须具有弹性。尽管复原力对于非营利组织很重要，但仍需要更多的研究来了解构建组织复原力的因素以及领导者如何帮助提高复原力。我们进行了一项定性案例研究，其中包括对一个有记录的弹性非营利组织的组织成员和主要合作伙伴的 23 次访谈、实地考察和档案信息。我们的研究结果表明，领导者可以通过协作获取资源来增强韧性，这与之前的理论一致。我们的结果通过提供对协作如何促进弹性的更细致的理解，丰富了之前的研究。具体来说，我们的研究结果表明，当组织谦逊促使领导者从战略上将其网络主要限制在具有共同使命的合作伙伴时，弹性可能会增强。我们的研究主要为组织弹性文献做出贡献，同时为组织谦逊文献提供更多辅助贡献。此外，我们的研究为非营利组织领导者如何增强其组织的韧性提供了实用指导。我们的研究结果表明，当组织谦逊促使领导者从战略上将其网络主要限制在具有共同使命的合作伙伴时，复原力可能会增强。我们的研究主要为组织弹性文献做出贡献，同时为组织谦逊文献提供更多辅助贡献。此外，我们的研究为非营利组织领导者如何培养其组织的弹性提供了实用指导。我们的研究结果表明，当组织谦逊促使领导者从战略上将其网络主要限制在具有共同使命的合作伙伴时，复原力可能会增强。我们的研究主要为组织弹性文献做出贡献，同时为组织谦逊文献提供更多辅助贡献。此外，我们的研究为非营利组织领导者如何增强其组织的韧性提供了实用指导。