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Why Are Nonprofit Organizations Financially Strained in Japan? An Analysis of Japanese NPO Management and Marketing Strategies
Ito, Hiroshi; Pilot, Cecile - In: International Review of Management and Marketing 5 (2015) 1, pp. 1-8
The number of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) has been growing worldwide in the last few decades. In Japan, the number of NPOs started skyrocketing in the late 1990s and now has reached almost 50,000, a significant increase from fewer than 10,000 in the early 2000s. Despite their increasing...
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The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework For Measuring Social Performance
Ebrahim, Alnoor; Rangan, V. Kasturi - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2010
Leaders of organizations in the social sector are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impacts on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. We review the debates around performance and impact, drawing on three literatures: strategic philanthropy, nonprofit management, and...
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Why Are Nonprofit Organizations Financially Strained in Japan? An Analysis of Japanese NPO Management and Marketing Strategies
Ito, Hiroshi; Pilot, Cecile - In: International Review of Management and Marketing 5 (2015) 1, pp. 1-8
The number of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) has been growing worldwide in the last few decades. In Japan, the number of NPOs started skyrocketing in the late 1990s and now has reached almost 50,000, a significant increase from fewer than 10,000 in the early 2000s. Despite their increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167171
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Giving versus Taking: A “Real Donation” Comparison of Warm Glow and Cold Prickle in a Context-Rich Environment
grossman, philip j.; Eckel, Catherine C. - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2012
.e. charitable organizations). Our study focuses directly on subjects’ willingness to contribute to and take from a charity. We do … this by allocating the initial endowment in one of three ways: either all to the subjects, all to the charity, or evenly … to the charity); the final amount allocated to the charity is independent of how the choice option is framed. On …
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Giving versus Taking: A “Real Donation” Comparison of Warm Glow and Cold Prickle
grossman, philip j.; Eckel, Catherine C. - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2012
and take from a charity. We do this by allocating the initial endowment in one of three ways: either all to the subjects …, all to the charity, or evenly between the two. Subjects are allowed to either contribute or take back as little or as much …
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Modern theoretical and practical aspects of the process of organisation of financing of socially important projects on the basis of fundraising
Glebova Alla O. - In: The Problems of Economy (2013) 4, pp. 206-211
polls in Ukraine, which testify to reduction of trust to charity, the article states that today it is impossible to solve … socially important problems without charity (financing projects for disabled, old people homes, incurable patients, etc …
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Relational Warm Glow and Giving in Social Groups
Scharf, Kimberley; Smith, Sarah - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2014
Using a newly collected dataset on inquisitorial activity for seven regions, fourteen provinces and 947 municipalities, I analyze the long-term economic consequences of the Spanish Inquisition (1478-1834). I show that inquisitorial activity is negatively associated to regional and provincial...
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Entrepreneurship for Human Flourishing
Horst, Chris; Greer, Peter - American Enterprise Institute
When it comes to helping the poor, conventional wisdom tells us that charity is the answer. But that isn't true. …
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Dublin’s Seventeenth Century Parishes and the Quality of Life
Jordan, Thomas - In: Social Indicators Research 118 (2014) 2, pp. 819-833
The registers of Dublin’s parishes in the seventeenth century provide access to aspects of civic and religious life. In the registers are records of burials, marriages, christenings, and expenditures. The registers also record charitable acts such as the interment of the dead found on city...
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ОСОБЕННОСТИ ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ И ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЯ ФИНАНСОВЫХ И ИМУЩЕСТВЕННЫХ РЕСУРСОВ СОЦИАЛЬНО ОРИЕНТИРОВАННЫХ НЕКОММЕРЧЕСКИХ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЙ ВОЛГОГРАДСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ...
СТЕПАНОВНА, ОЛЕЙНИК ОЛЬГА; … - In: Вестник Волгоградского … (2014) 3, pp. 53-64
Статья посвящена проблеме взаимодействия органов региональной власти и института социально ориентированных некоммерческих организаций, которые осуществляют...
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