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Not-for-Profit Entrepreneurs
Glaeser, Edward L.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2021
Entrepreneurs who start new firms may choose not-for-profit status as a means of committing to soft incentives. Such incentives protect donors, volunteers, consumers and employees from ex post expropriation of profits by the entrepreneur. We derive conditions under which completely...
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The Governance of Not-For-Profit Firms
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2002
non-profits will often evolve into organizations that resemble workers' cooperatives. The primary check on this tendency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469793
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The transaction cost theory of the nonprofit firm : beyond opportunism
Valentinov, Vladislav - 2008
Building on the transaction cost theory of the for-profit firm, the article argues that the transaction cost-economizing role of the nonprofit firm has two distinct dimensions. One of them consists of reducing the cost of searching for, processing, and communicating information and the other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012127768
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Not-For-Profit Entrepreneurs
Glaeser, Edward L. - 1998
Entrepreneurs who start new firms may choose not-for-profit status as a means of committing to soft incentives. Such incentives protect donors, volunteers, consumers and employees from ex post expropriation of profits by the entrepreneur. We derive conditions under which completely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472003
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The Governance of Not-for-Profit Firms
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2003
non-profits will often evolve into organizations that resemble workers' cooperatives. The primary check on this tendency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014115784
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The Governance of Not-for-Profit Firms
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2021
non-profits will often evolve into organizations that resemble workers' cooperatives. The primary check on this tendency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227489
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Social capital in cooperatives: An evolutionary Luhmannian perspective
Valentinov, Vladislav; Iliopoulos, Constantine - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 31 (2021) 4, pp. 1317-1331
literature to make the case for the tendency of social capital resources of agricultural cooperatives in the Western world to …-making calculus. Cooperatives are shown to present one of the channels through which this codification may be possible; namely, the … codification effect of cooperatives enables the incorporation of a multitude of mutual self-help activities into the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652937
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Social capital in cooperatives : an evolutionary Luhmannian perspective
Valentinov, Vladislav; Iliopoulos, Constantine - In: Journal of evolutionary economics 31 (2021) 4, pp. 1317-1331
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012663739
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Intellectual capital in non-profit organisations: lessons learnt for waqf institutions
Laallam, Abdelkader; Kassim, Salina; Engku Rabiah … - In: ISRA international journal of islamic finance 12 (2020) 1, pp. 27-48
Purpose This study aims to highlight the importance of intellectual capital (IC) for the operation of waqf (Islamic endowment) institutions, as few studies have discussed this issue in relation to non-profit religious organisations, particularly waqf organisations. Consequently, this study hopes...
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Betwixt and between : the invisible experiences of volunteers' body work
Venter, Katharine - In: Work, employment and society : a journal of the British … 36 (2022) 5, pp. 911-927
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