This paper explores whether ownership matters in a fundamental sense by comparing the performance of stockholder-owned firms with the much less analyzed nonprofit firms. No stakeholder has residual cash flow rights in nonprofit firms, and the control rights are held by customers, employees, and...

The US healthcare system is experiencing a funding shortfall that constrains efforts to provide healthcare to our citizens. Patients are no longer sure they will receive adequate healthcare during their senior years. One solution is to create an annuity at birth for each individual. This annuity...

The K-Means and Ward’s Clustering procedures were used to categorize value similarities among respondents of a public land management survey. The clustering procedures resulted in two respondent groupings: an anthropocentrically focused group and an ecocentrically focused group. While previous...