In order for the assistance we extend to others to be maximally effective—whether interpersonally or institutionally—we need both givers to extend the help and recipients to utilize the assistance made available to them. Although much organizational behavior research has explored ways to increase prosocial behavior and charitable giving, comparatively little organizational scholarship has explored the recipient’s perspective. We believe that organizational behavior scholars, and social scientists more broadly, need to broaden their focus to examining why recipients in need of help sometimes neglect to utilize help. This paper proposes our Aid Utility Theory as a new way of thinking about and tackling aid utilization neglect, while also synthesizing prior social scientific literature that aims to improve aid utilization. We conclude with future directions for organizational behavior scholars who are interested in researching the perspective of those receiving help and improving global aid effectiveness. (145 words)

为了使我们向他人提供的援助发挥最大效力（无论是在人际上还是在机构上），我们需要提供者提供帮助，也需要接受者利用向他们提供的援助。尽管许多组织行为研究探索了增加亲社会行为和慈善捐赠的方法，但相对较少的组织奖学金探索了接受者的观点。我们认为，组织行为学者和更广泛的社会科学家需要扩大关注范围，研究为什么需要帮助的接受者有时会忽视利用帮助。本文提出了我们的援助效用理论，作为思考和解决援助利用忽视问题的新方法，同时还综合了旨在提高援助利用的先前社会科学文献。最后，我们为有兴趣研究接受帮助者的观点和提高全球援助有效性的组织行为学者提出了未来的方向。 （145字）