Over the past twenty-five years, about 330 (7 percent) of the country's 5,000 not-for-profit hospitals have converted to for-profit form This paper explores the causes and effects of conversions through two case studies -- Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas and the Columbia/HealthOne...

Insufficiency of disposable income has long been one of the core problems faced by China’s nation-owned non-profit performing arts organizations. This paper employs random-effect model to examine the determinants that affect private donations to the organizations by using a 31-province level...

Governance and the role of the board -- Governance codes -- Risk in the boardroom -- Environmental & social governance (ESG) and sustainability -- Executive directors on the board -- Role of the company secretary -- Recruiting and maintaining an effective board -- Gaining a first board...

Can parties contract out of the general partnership form of business organization, even if their conduct would otherwise establish a partnership? Although a recent judicial decision suggests that they can, treating contractual disclaimers of partnership as dispositive is inconsistent with modern...

This Article argues that current nonprofit organization theories must be refined to account for the ways in which these organizations take responsibility for public spaces. Nonprofit organizations (“NPOs”) take responsibility in two ways that reduce the cost of monitoring their performance...

In the early 1980s the tenant leaders of the New Orleans St. Thomas public housing development and their activist allies were militant, uncompromising defenders of the city's public housing communities. Yet ten years later these same leaders became actively involved in a planning effort to...