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Non Profit Organization Liquid Assets Strategies

Michalski, Grzegorz - 2015

In dependence of kind of realized mission, sensitivity on risk, which is a result of decision about liquid assets investment level and liquid assets financing. The kind of organization influence the best strategy choice. If an exposition on risk is greater, the higher level of inventories,...

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Explaining Nonprofit Organisation : The Social Value Approach

Valentinov, Vladislav L. - 2014

The paper argues that the major existing economic theories of nonprofit organisation are most suitable to those nonprofits which are protecting and promoting private rather than public interests. These theories therefore do not offer an adequate explanation why some nonprofits do directly serve...

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The Impact of the Non-Distribution Constraint and its Enforcement on Entrepreneurial Choice, Price, and Quality

Brhlikova, Petra - 2009

We study the conditions under which it is rational for a representative entrepreneur to start a nonprofit firm. Taking as point of departure a model of entrepreneurial choice proposed by Glaeser and Shleifer (2001), we analyze consequences of weak enforcement of the non-distribution constraint...

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Competition and Mergers Among Nonprofits

Prufer, Jens - 2014

Should mergers among nonprofi t organizations be assessed diff erently than mergers among for-profit firms? A recent debate in law and economics, boosted by apparently one-sided court decisions, has produced the result that promoting competition is socially valuable regardless of the particular...

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Some Reflections on the Transaction Cost Theory of Nonprofit Organisation

Valentinov, Vladislav L. - 2007

The paper extends the transaction cost theory of nonprofit organisation by differentiating between two types of …

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Models of Competition between One For-Profit and One Nonprofit Firm

Brhlikova, Petra - 2005

To study the coexistence of two different ownership forms within an industry, I develop a simple model of competition between one forprofit and one nonprofit firm. The two firms have different objectives and face different constraints due to their choice of ownership status. Assuming...

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Some Models and Evidences on the Coexistence between For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals in the Brazilian National Health System

Marinho, Alexandre - 2011

This work shows some aspects of the relation between for-profits and nonprofits hospitals in the realm of the Brazilian National Health System (SUS). We emphasize the for-profit and not-for-profit orientations of the hospitals rather than focusing on the usual private versus public dichotomy. By...

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Property Rights and the Nature of Nonprofit Supply

Balestri, Claudio - 2015

Integrating many different elements from the main theories about nonprofit organizations, we define a model that leads to new results for the economic rationale of nonprofit firms. Specifically, we examine the conditions under which these firms can provide efficient levels of production in...

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Chapter 21 Not-for-profit ownership and hospital behavior

Sloan, Frank A. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1141-1174). 2000

The for-profit hospital is in the minority numerically in all developed countries. Although the for-profits' market share has been quite stable for decades, for-profit chains have grown in share and influence in the United States. By contrast, for-profit chains have made few inroads in other...

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Mandatory Disclosure of Managerial Contracts in Nonprofit Organizations

Kopel, Michael; Marini, Marco A. - 2020

competing for donations in the fundraising market. Our aim is to investigate the impact of publicly available contract … information on fundraising competition of nonprofit organizations. We argue that, although such provision makes contract … organizations are trapped in a situation of excessive fundraising activities. However, we show that publicly available contract …

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