The last decades have witnessed an increased interest in community-development policy implementation processes, emphasizing bottom-up, or community-based, solutions to urban problems. Two lines of research have focused on: (1) the non-profit sector as a vehicle for using policy to connect poor...

The extent to which nonprofit organizations are created by various forms of social capital is examined.Data are developed from the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, the Internal Revenue Service's "charitable organization" Business Master Files, and other federal data sources. The number...

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...

We show that social capital improves the viability of stakeholder-oriented firms operating in competitive markets. Studying exits from the population of Norwegian savings banks after deregulations, we find that banks located in communities with high social capital have a higher probability of...