Social enterprises managers have to improve both business efficiency and general interest mission. A specific management of human resources is required to attain this double objective performance. How to combine efficiency with employees? self-determination? This strategic question concerns each...

Taking evolutionary view of markets, Harold Demsetz hypothesized that firms differ persistently in efficiency and that industry concentration results from growth of efficient firms at the expense of inefficient ones. We test the hypothesis with high quality microdata from the US hospital...

This paper investigates the nonprofit wage gap suggesting a theoretical framework where, like in Akerlof (1984), effort correlates not only with wages, but also with non-monetary compensations. These take the form of relational goods and services by-produced in the delivery of particular...

This anthology consists of a collection of articles that address two common questions : how institutions emerge from individual actions and how individual actions are shaped by institutions ? What unifies these contributions is the search of a theoretical explanation that overcomes the...

We use a unique dataset to study how participation in two specific types of nonprofit organizations, i.e. social welfare associations and social cooperatives, affects individual social capital. A descriptive analysis shows that both the types of organization have a positive impact. The...

In this paper we attempt to identify behavioral differences between public and private not-forprofit hospitals, by using the opportunity of the introduction of the DRG-based payment system in the Italian NHS during the second half of the Nineties. We estimate the technical efficiency of a sample...

This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first empirical investigation into the role of different types of enterprises in the creation of social trust. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample of the...

According to the theory, there are some reasonable reasons to assume that non-profit organizations behave specifically, in the way that is significantly different from the behaviour typical for both for-profit and public subjects. We believe that nonprofit organizations have several attributes...

The main objective of the contribution is to compare nonprofit organizations and profit firms as organizational units. For the comparison an organizational model in a static environment was used. On behalf of comparison a typical characteristics for nonprofit organizations are specified and...

Economic decline in recent years has been strongly felt by European countries. Once with currency devaluation, the recession has caused rapid deterioration of incomes, and marked the collapse of financial markets. Furthermore, the difficulties encountered in industry and services have led to a...