In dem Beitrag werden die Entstehungshintergründe, Ziele und Interessen des Bundes der Steuerzahler (BdSt) erläutert. Anhand von Beispielen werden die Formen der Beteiligung des Verbandes am politischen Willensbildungsprozess verdeutlicht. Steuerzahler, die grundsätzlich bereit sind, ehrlich...

Most universities in Germany are public firms but they have many properties of co-operatives. The most important thereof are described and analysed together with the characteristics of state-sponsorship. The real companions of the university as a co-operation are its professors. The same is true...

Intrinsic motivation of workers may arise from different individual motives. While some workers care about the mission of an organization and derive an intrinsic benefit from advancing this mission ("good" workers), others derive pleasure from some form of destructive or anti-social behavior...

Der vorliegende Bericht stellt die wesentlichen Elemente der Absatzförderung Österreichs und der USA dar. Absatzförderung in Österreich ist produktübergreifend, in den USA überwiegend branchenspezifisch organisiert. Absatzförderung in Österreich ist produktübergreifend, in den USA...

We assess the determinants of the wide variation in the efficiency of foreign aid activities across US-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In particular, we analyze whether non-charitable expenditures for administration, management and fundraising depend on the intensity of competition...

This papers sheds light on the puzzling evidence that even though open source software (OSS) is a public good, it is developed for free by highly qualified, young and motivated individuals, and evolves at a rapid pace. We show that once OSS development is understood as the private provision of a...

This paper analyses the development of universities' patent applications in Germany before and after the abolition of the 'professors' privilege' in 2002. By means of a database with all patent applications of German universities with professors among the inventors (1990-2006), systematic...

The question if private donors care about aid effectiveness when they donate to an international charity has received little attention in the literature on private charitable giving as well as in development microeconomics. This discussion is important, because a considerable share of foreign...

Entrepreneurs in low-income and minority neighborhoods encounter numerous problems in securing capital. To address this capital gap this paper considers a new role for private foundations as community development venture capitalists (CDVCs). It is suggested that through grant making and...