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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001
"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...
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Three Empirical Studies in Market Design
Stocking, Andrew James - 2009
. Using an online natural field experiment with over 700,000 subjects, this chapter tests theory on price discounts and shows … fundraising strategies on the specifics of past donation dimensions.The second chapter examines an auction used to solve the … problem must occur for over 2,000 consumer searches each second. Theory is developed where asymmetric advertisers compete and …
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Conflicts and Value Trade-Offs in the Management of Common Property: Insights from Land Use Studies in the Australian Sugar Industry
Mallawaarachchi, Thilak - 2001
"Traditionally, benefits of common property arrangements arose from complementarity in resource use, which permitted multiple uses for several users. Today, common property resources (CPRs) represent quasi-public goods, featuring increasing rivalry in consumption. As the domain of uses widens...
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Do social preferences matter in competitive markets?
Heidhues, Paul; Riedel, Frank - 2007
Experimental evidence stresses the importance of so-called social preferences for understanding economic behavior. Social preferences are defined over the entire allocation in a given economic environment, and not just over one's own consumption as is traditionally presumed. We study the...
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Change agents or counting the change: insights to the role of fundraisers in Australian society and issues facing their professionalisation
Scaife, Wendy A.; Madden, Kym M. - 2006
Fundraising is a field misunderstood in public perception (Giving Australia 2005) yet fundraisers are arguably critical … change agents in Australian society. Debate continues around aspects of whether fundraising is an industry or a profession … professionalisation of fundraising in creating more sustainable organisations and the issues of providing a supply of qualified …
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Corporate philanthropy: who gives and why?
Madden, Kym M.; Scaife, Wendy A. - 2007
INTRODUCTION. This chapter considers what we know, and what we might like to know about corporate philanthropy and community engagement. It does so particularly through a nonprofit marketing lens, that is, from the perspective of the nonprofit organization seeking mission revenue and resources...
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The Impacts of Corporate Sponsorship on Private, Nonprofit Gardens and Museums
Shackelford, Stacy Cost - 1999
Corporate sponsorship is becoming more widespread as a fund raising effort by private, non-profit gardens and museums. , n this study, the researcher used five Impact Areas to measure how corporate sponsorship influenced the four case study sites. They were policies, finances, programs,...
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Funding Strategies For Government-Affiliated Gardens
Lowe, Cheryl - 1991
capitalprojects are most often from general taxes, bonds, donations, and fundraising. In kindservices such as insurance, building … responsibilities,and fundraising issues are discussed. Although government agencies are theprimary governing authority in two-thirds of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467384
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Fundraising Strategies of Nonprofit Organizations: Measuring ROI and Success in a Time of Economic Crisis
Jablonski, Leslie Gwen - 2011
Fundraising is a vital part of many associations across the United States—many organizations depend greatly on the … event industry and its involvement in the realm of fundraising. The aim of the research is to understand how the events …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467990
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Fundraising im Internet : Potentiale - Inhalte - Spenderwünsche
Patolla, Beate - 2005
Das Thema „Fundraising im Internet“ wird in der vorliegenden Dissertation unter drei Gesichtspunkten betrachtet: 1 …. Potentiale des Internets für das Fundraising, 2. Inhalte auf den Websites von Nonprofit-Organisationen sowie 3. Wünsche der … Internet-Spender. Zunächst werden auf einer theoretischen Ebene die Potentiale dargelegt, die das Internet für das Fundraising …
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