Nonprofits provide services for the common good and are having an increasing influence on the economy over time. There is consensus among prior studies in for-profit settings that social capital positively influences corporate financial performance. In contrast, this study analyzes the...

Social capital depicts the extent of mutual trust in a jurisdiction. This study examines the impact of social capital on nonprofit density and provides evidence that the social capital of a county is positively associated with the growth of nonprofit density in the county. The total number of...

This study tests whether economic value added (EVA) as a performance evaluation metric incentivizes public administrators to increase the performance of public organizations. It utilizes data from Wind Info Database (WIND) and finds that the adoption of EVA as a performance evaluation metric...

Covering the period from 1950 through 1988 this book examines the role of a large bureaucracy under the Shah and post-revolutionary changes in that bureaucracy under the Islamic Republic. It focuses on the role of one of the most powerful bureaucracies in Iran, the Ministry of Agriculture and...

Focusing on three input variables (i.e., government efficiency, business efficiency, and infrastructure advancement) and one output variable (i.e., economic performance), we employ the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique in an attempt to make an efficiency comparison between the developed...