The growing literature on corporate responsibility (CR) has drawn attention to how different CR practices complement each other and interact in the form of configurations. This study investigated CR patterns associated with high financial performance for 466 firms in Mainland China, Hong Kong,...

As the public sector increasingly relies on grants to nonprofits to provide human services, both public and nonprofit partners are exploring the implications of this relationship in order to ensure the best possible outcomes. A key issue that has emerged in the public sector literature is the...

For some scholars and practitioners the unique organizational characteristics of foundations allow them to play a major role in society as innovators and risk takers and as powerful agents of change (Anheier & Daly, 2007). For others, foundations are in theory thought to be powerful actors, but...

This paper empirically addresses the effects that the network embeddedness of nonprofit organizations has on their ability to access philanthropic resources within competitive markets. Implicit in many criticisms of institutional philanthropy is the normative belief that nonprofits that are not...

For some scholars and practitioners the unique organizational characteristics of foundations allow them to play a major role in society as innovators and risk takers and as powerful agents of change (Anheier & Daly, 2007). For others, foundations are in theory thought to be powerful actors, but...

The recent era of economic turbulence has generated a growing enthusiasm for an increase in new and original economic insights based around the concepts of reciprocity and social enterprise. This stimulating and thought-provoking Handbook not only encourages and supports this growth, but also...