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Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment
Grout, Paul; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2008
How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bu- reaucrat, who supplies some...
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Provision of quality and certification intermediaries
Albano, Gian Luigi; Lizzeri, Alessandro - 1997
inefficient. Certification intermediaries are institutions that provide information about quality to buyers. The amount of …
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Umbrella branding and external certification
Hakenes, Hendrik; Peitz, Martin - 2008
convince consumers of the high quality of its products. Alternatively, a firm can rely on external certification of the quality … external certification. We also show that the potential to signal quality is improved if consumers condition their beliefs on … the source of information, namely whether information comes from external certification or from random detection. …
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Small is beautiful: Experimental evidence of donors' preferences for charities
Borgloh, Sarah; Dannenberg, Astrid; Aretz, Bodo - 2010
This paper studies the effect of information about a charity's size on individuals' donations to that charity. We conducted a framed field experiment with a non-student sample, in which subjects had the opportunity to donate for various charitable purposes. The results show that if subjects are...
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Informationsbedarf auf dem Spendenmarkt
Dickertmann, Dietrich; Piel, Viktor - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 75 (1995) 1, pp. 49-56
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Was bestimmt die finanziellen Reserven spendensammelnder NPOs? Eine empirische Analyse möglicher Einflussfaktoren
Neubert, Luzius - 2006
Spendensammelnde Nonprofit-Organisationen (NPOs) verfügen verglichen mit gewinnorientierten Unternehmen ähnlicher Grösse über relativ hohe finanzielle Reserven in Form eines Finanzvermögens. Deren Höhe hängt von verschiedenen Faktoren ab, die im Rahmen der vorliegenden Studie untersucht...
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Private Standards als Ursache vertikaler Abhängigkeiten?
von Schlippenbach, Vanessa; Teichmann, Isabel - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 3, pp. 175-187
Konsumgüter durchlaufen verschiedene Transformations- und Transaktionsstufen, bevor sie den Verbraucher erreichen. Die Qualität der Güter bestimmt sich demzufolge aus den Qualitäten, die auf den einzelnen Stufen der Wertschöpfungskette erzielt werden. Die Qualitätssicherung entlang der...
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Qualitätsmanagement in Nonprofit-Organisationen: Eine mikropolitische Analyse am Beispiel des Landesverbandes der Arbeiterwohlfahrt Berlin
Marienfeldt, Justine - 2018
Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Qualitätsmanagementsystemen in Nonprofit-Organisationen. Sie stellt dabei das Spannungsfeld verschiedener Akteursinteressen innerhalb von Non-profit-Organisationen in den Vordergrund. Dies erfolgt anhand des mikropolitischen Ansatzes, der allen...
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Separating Equilibria with Imperfect Certification
Strausz, Roland - 2010
Viscusi (1978) shows how, in markets with quality uncertainty, perfect certification results in separation from top … down due to an unraveling process similar to Akerlof (1970). De and Nabar (1991) argue that imperfect certification …' buying decision explicitly, a separating equilibrium with imperfect certification does exist. …
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The Credibility of Certifiers
Stolper, Anno - 2011
It is often argued that certifiers have an incentive to offer inflated certificates, although they deny it. In this paper, we study a model in which a certifier is paid by sellers, and may offer them inflated certificates, but incurs costs if doing so. We find that the certifier may face a...
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