Our study generalizes and extends a cumulative body of research on diversification into the contexts of social entrepreneurship. We examine the extent to which internationalization and program diversification affect a coveted, yet understudied, outcome for social organizations—revenue diversification—and investigate efficiency as a boundary condition of those relationships. Our longitudinal analyses, based on roughly 53,000 observations of Canadian nonprofits that engage in social entrepreneurship, indicate that program diversification is positively related to nonprofits' revenue diversification, but internationalization is not. Further, we found that efficiency compliments these relationships. Our findings are partially in line with research from the for-profit literature, but also extend this line of research by suggesting that different types of diversification are associated with revenue diversification in the context of social entrepreneurship.

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追求多元化机会、效率和收入多元化：社会企业家精神的概括和延伸

我们的研究将关于多元化的累积研究概括并扩展到社会创业的背景下。我们研究了国际化和项目多元化在多大程度上影响了社会组织梦寐以求但尚未充分研究的成果——收入多元化——并将效率作为这些关系的边界条件进行了调查。我们的纵向分析基于对从事社会创业的加拿大非营利组织的大约 53,000 次观察，表明项目多元化与非营利组织的收入多元化呈正相关，但国际化并非如此。此外，我们发现效率可以补充这些关系。我们的发现部分符合营利性文献的研究，