Stakeholder theorists have traditionally objected to the neoclassical conception of the firm as a vehicle for maximizing profit or shareholder wealth, thus opening up space for controversial engagement with neoclassical economics. The present paper fills some of this space by elaborating the...

This paper argues that non-profit and for-profit organizations are coequal variants of the general concept of multifunctional organization. A more multifunctional view of an NPO’s or for-profit organization’s environment that does not systematically neglect religious, educational,...

This article explores the cross-fertilization potential that exists between the economic theory of agricultural cooperatives and that of nonprofit organizations. A number of central ideas in the agricultural cooperative theory are shown to generate two novel insights pertaining to the nonprofit...