The governance of not-for-profit organizations / edited by Edward L. Glaeser.

Not-for-profit organizations play a critical role in the American economy. In health care, education, culture, and religion, we trust not-for-profit firms to serve the interests of their donors, customers, employees, and society at large. We know that such firms don't try to maximize profits, b...

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Other Authors: Glaeser, Edward L. (Edward Ludwig), 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Edition:Pbk. ed.
Series:National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ownership form and trapped capital in the hospital industry / Henry Hansmann, Daniel Kessler, and Mark McClellan
  • Does governance matter? The case of art museums / Sharon Oster and Willian N. Goetzmann
  • HMO penetration, ownership status, and the rise of hospital advertising / Jason R. Barro and Michael Chu
  • Objective functions and compenstation structured in non-profit and for-profit organizations : evidence from the "mixed" hospital industry / Burcay Erus and Burton A. Weisbrod
  • A Renaissance instrument to support nonprofits : the sale of private chapels in Florentine churches / Johnathan Katz Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
  • Theories of firm behavior in the nonprofit sector : a synthesis and empirical evaluation / Anup Malani, Tomas Philipson, and Guy David
  • Role of nonprofit endowments / Raymond Fisman and R. Glenn Hubbard.