Americans have a love-hate relationship with government. Rejecting bureaucracy — but not the goods and services the welfare state provides — Americans are insisting government be made to run like a business. But, as Constitutional Coup shows, separating the state from its public servants,...

This paper builds a conceptual framework of business incubation models in institutionally void environments, a relevant yet understudied topic in the extant literature. On the basis of case studies drawn from a sample of business incubators in Egypt and grounding on the resource dependence...

This article is based on a systematic literature review of compensation practices and motivation processes in social sector organisations. The review is divided into two main sub-sections- compensation and motivation. The review of the compensation literature provides a holistic understanding of...

This paper analyses the use of Services of General Economic Interest to which general access under equal conditions has been recognised as key for social and territorial cohesion by European policy-makers. In order to do so, citizens' preferences with respect to these services are analysed...

Over the past few decades, social enterprises have grown remarkably. This paper investigates how social enterprises affect access to social services (e.g., education and health‐care) and utilitarian welfare. To this end, two economic systems are compared: a market economy system, where all...

Privatization has certainly been one of the main events of the economic and financial history of the 20th century. Between 1997 and 2004 more than 4,000 privatization operations were carried out in the world, bringing to governments revenues for over 1,350 US $billion. Western Europe emerges as...

In response to the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring and summer of 2020, thousands of grassroots, participatory, and often social movement-connected community efforts to help feed and care for one another through the crisis were launched, many of which identified their...

Nonprofits provide services for the common good and are having an increasing influence on the economy over time. There is consensus among prior studies in for-profit settings that social capital positively influences corporate financial performance. In contrast, this study analyzes the...

Social capital depicts the extent of mutual trust in a jurisdiction. This study examines the impact of social capital on nonprofit density and provides evidence that the social capital of a county is positively associated with the growth of nonprofit density in the county. The total number of...

From 2011 onwards, Digital Government Units (DGUs) have quickly emerged as a preferred solution for tackling the over-cost and under-performing digital services and lagging digital transformation agendas plaguing today’s governments. DGUs represent a common machinery of government phenomenon...