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Relational goods, monitoring and non-pecuniary compensations in the nonprofit sector: the case of the Italian social services
Mosca, Michele; Musella, Marco; Pastore, Francesco - 2006
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...
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An Anatomy of Autonomy: Managing Professionals
Raelin, Joseph A. - In: Academy of Management Perspectives 3 (1989) 3, pp. 216-228
The most vexing problem in the management of salaried professionals is how to provide them with their espoused right of autonomy while ensuring adequate control of the organization. In this article, Joseph Raelin explains how a standard approach of granting professionals operational autonomy...
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Public vs Nonprofit Incarceration: The Case of The Netherlands
Wassenaar, Mattheus; Gradus, Raymond; Molleman, Toon - 2017
Outsourcing of detention is a complex public task, due to quality risks from incomplete contracts, the public responsibility for sentencing and execution, and related social opinions. In the Netherlands, the debate about the outsourcing of prison services to the private profit sector has...
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Do cooperative enterprises create social trust?
Sabatini, Fabio; Modena, Francesca; Tortia, Ermanno - 2012
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...
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Mandatory Disclosure of Managerial Contracts in Nonprofit Organizations
Kopel, Michael; Marini, Marco A. - 2020
Nonprofit organizations have been recently mandated to disclose the details of their executives’ compensation packages. Contract information is now accessible not only to current and prospective donors, but also to rival nonprofit organizations competing for donations in the fundraising...
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Nonprofit Organizations in the Knowledge Based Economy – Organizational Development and Professionalization
Dobrai, Katalin; Farkas, Ferenc - 2015
nonprofit organizations impact organizational knowledge and organizational development and, how important professionalization is … for them. The goal of this paper is, to give an overview of special issues of learning and growing professionalization of … research findings the paper shall expand our general knowledge about professionalization trends in the sector, and also provide …
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What Follows Tertiarisation? Structural Change and the Role of Knowledge-based Services
Peneder, Michael; Kaniovski, Serguei; Dachs, Bernhard - 2001
The rise of the service economy has been the predominant pattern of structural change in the twentieth century. This article investigates the driving forces behind the recent stages of this development. Focusing on international input - output data from the early 1970s to the 1990s, a...
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The European Union's service directive: Contrasting ex ante estimates with empirical evidence
Dettmer, Bianka - 2012
One of the top priorities to improve the European Union's growth performance is the creation ofsingle market for services. The directive on services adopted by the Parliament and the Council by the end of 2006 aims at removing barriers to the free movement of service providers on the internal...
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Business services outsourcing and economic growth: Evidence from a dynamic panel data approach
Dettmer, Bianka - 2012
Innovations in information- and telecommunication technology render the proximity requirement between business partners obsolete and make business service outsourcing via cross-border trade more feasible. Although the (service-led) growth prospects have been widely discussed, evidence at the...
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Die Ergänzung der Gründungsstatistik des IfM Bonn durch freiberufliche Gründungen: Ergebnisse einer Pilotstudie am Beispiel Nordrhein-Westfalen
Kranzusch, Peter; Suprinovic, Olga - 2011
Die Gründungsstatistik des IfM Bonn enthielt bisher keine Angaben zu nichtgewerblichen Gründungen, darunter auch freiberufliche. Zur Ermittlung einer alle Wirtschaftsbereiche umfassenden Gründungszahl wurden erstmals Angaben zur steuerlichen Anmeldung bei der Finanzverwaltung in...
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