Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important. In recent work, economic theorists have started to build psychological factors, like intrinsic...

Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways - immigrant societies are multi-layered and multi-dimensional. We examine the situation where there exists a foundation that has resources and that wishes to help the migrants. To do so they need migrant groups...

Nicolas Véron comments on the proposal for governance reform ('constitution review') published in May 2008 by the IASC Foundation, the private-sector body which oversees the setting of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). He emphasizes the unprecedented nature of this global...

How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bureaucrat, who supplies some...

Das Thema „Fundraising im Internet“ wird in der vorliegenden Dissertation unter drei Gesichtspunkten betrachtet: 1. Potentiale des Internets für das Fundraising, 2. Inhalte auf den Websites von Nonprofit-Organisationen sowie 3. Wünsche der Internet-Spender. Zunächst werden auf einer...

Die vorliegende Arbeit beleuchtet die Open Source Technologie vor dem Hintergrund des Nachhaltigkeitsmanagements in Nonprofit Organisationen (NPO). Im Fokus der Arbeit steht die Antwort auf die Frage, wie hoch das Potenzial für ein Nachhaltigkeitsmanagementsystem auf Basis von Open Source...