The for-profit hospital is in the minority numerically in all developed countries. Although the for-profits' market share has been quite stable for decades, for-profit chains have grown in share and influence in the United States. By contrast, for-profit chains have made few inroads in other...

Social enterprises managers have to improve both business efficiency and general interest mission. A specific management of human resources is required to attain this double objective performance. How to combine efficiency with employees? self-determination? This strategic question concerns each...

The article sets out to explore how conflicting institutional logics of support organizations influence their value creation. Value creation undertaken by support organizations does not directly reflect their missions. Even though one can generalize that all support organizations should adjust...

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...

Diversity matters, both at the firm and at the macro-economic level. This is the driving mission of JEOD. While the importance of diversity is already quite well recognized in other disciplines as a major source of wellbeing and quality of life, an open discussion on diversity in economics...

Economic decline in recent years has been strongly felt by European countries. Once with currency devaluation, the recession has caused rapid deterioration of incomes, and marked the collapse of financial markets. Furthermore, the difficulties encountered in industry and services have led to a...

The main objective of the contribution is to compare nonprofit organizations and profit firms as organizational units. For the comparison an organizational model in a static environment was used. On behalf of comparison a typical characteristics for nonprofit organizations are specified and...

The voluntary supply of collective goods by nonprofit institutions has deserved little attention in the Public Choice literature, and the clasical nonprofits approach does not consider nonprofits supply as a collective decision, although individuals, either as consumers or as donors, are in the...