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Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment
Grout, Paul A.; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2021
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 bureaucrat, who supplies some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324984
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Non-profit organizations in a bureaucratic environment
Grout, Paul A.; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759869
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Non-profit organizations in a bureaucratic environment
Grout, Paul A.; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003747379
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Non-profit organizations in a bureaucratic environment
Grout, Paul A.; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013442652
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Impure Prosocial Motivation in Charity Provision : Warm-Glow Charities and Implications for Public Funding
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2013
We show that warm-glow motives in provision by competing suppliers can lead to inefficient charity selection. In these situations, discretionary donor choices can promote efficient charity selection even when provision outcomes are non-verifiable. Government funding arrangements, on the other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072503
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Non-profit organizations in a bureaucratic environment
Grout, Paul A.; 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 bureaucrat, who supplies some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274068
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Are donors afraid of charities' core costs? : scale economies in non-profit provision and charity selection
Perroni, Carlo; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sandford, Sarah; … - 2014
We study contestability in non-profit markets when non-commercial providers supply a homogeneous collective good through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit competition, in the non-profit case the absence of price-based sales contracts means that fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418091
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Societal Trust and the Economic Behavior of Non-Profit Organizations
Felix, Robert - 2018
This study explores the impact of societal trust on the economic behavior of nonprofit organizations. Although prior studies reveal that trust has a positive impact on the economic behavior of for-profit firms, the institutional differences between the two organization types make it unclear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935971
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Government Decentralization and the Size of the Nonprofit Sector : Revisiting the Government Failure Theory
Liu, Gao - 2017
This article revisits government failure theory by examining the relationship between government decentralization and … the size of the nonprofit sector (NPS). Government failure theory posits that nonprofits are most active in regions where … theory, government decentralization should decrease the size of the NPS, as it increases the efficiency and heterogeneity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969997
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Should Public and Nonprofit Museums Have Free Admission?
Rushton, Michael J. - 2020
A common pricing structure for American art museums is to offer a choice between an admission fee for a single visit, and the purchase of an annual membership that would allow the member an unlimited number of visits with no additional charge. This paper evaluates this particular method of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012855191