Background: Place-based leadership plays a crucial role in local development. However, the role of nonprofit leaders is still an under-researched topic. Thus, we ask whether nonprofit leadership helps to develop rural areas and makes them attractive. Data and methodology: On a sample of 6,262...

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...

In the course of professionalization in the nonprofit sector, specialized nonprofit support organizations emerge, which provide other nonprofit organizations (NPO) with strategic management competencies. These nonprofit support organizations coexist with forprofit consultancies in a mixed...

For-profit and nonprofit organizations exist for different reasons: for-profits to generate a return on investment for shareholders and nonprofits to pursue charitable and social activities unrelated to commerce. The obligations of the boards of directors of both entities, however, are the same:...