Francois, Patrick - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 157 (2001) 3, pp. 443-443
Employees may care about the effect of their labor effort on output. When such care exists, this paper shows that nonprofit organizations (NPOs) are able to motivate their workers at lower cost than a standard profit-maximizing firm. Unlike previous explanations for NPOs, which depend on the...