In the course of professionalization in the nonprofit sector, specialized nonprofit support organizations emerge, which provide other nonprofit organizations (NPO) with strategic management competencies. These nonprofit support organizations coexist with forprofit consultancies in a mixed...

"Mission Investing" (MI) is an umbrella term for the practice of non-profit organizations (NPO) to include their mission into their investment policy. Despite the growing popularity of this concept it still greatly lacks a scientific foundation. This article identifies key characteristics of MI...

Financing non-profit organizations (NPOs) differs from financing business companies. Based on a literature review this article highlights that many aspects of nonprofit development are defined at the stage of the organizations' foundation. Thus, we apply the path dependence theory as a basis for...