Developing Design Capability in Nonprofit Organizations

Compensation in Nonprofit Organizations

Although the nonprofit sector is enormous, we know little about how workers there are compensated. This may be due, in part, to the fact that the literature is scattered across many fields including Human Resources Management, Accounting, Economics, Finance, Organizational Behavior, Political Science, and Sociology. The paper aims to synthesize the research on nonprofits from an economics point...

Wage Dispersion in Nonprofit Organizations:

Social Marketing and Nonprofit Organizations

Today the social marketing was constituted as a tool of significant value in what he refers to the promotion of changes of behaviors, attitudes end practices. With the objective of analyzing the benefits that the social marketing can bring for the organizations that use it the research was of the exploratory and descriptive. In the present study the comparative method was used, through a qualit...

Leadership and Economic Theories of Nonprofit Organizations Leadership and Economic Theories of Nonprofit Organizations

Economic theories of Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs) have modified standard economic assumptions to explain altruism and nonprofit entrepreneurship but have neglected their dependence on leadership due to the traditional reluctance of economists to consider phenomena associated with preference change. The relevance of Hermalin’s (1998) model of leadership by example and Casson’s (1991) theory of...

Capacity-Building Efforts for Nonprofit Organizations

3 3 AS S OCIE T Y REL IES more on nonprofit organizations to p r ovide critical services, advocate for public policy, and stimulate innovation, leaders in the nonprofit sector share common concerns: how to make better use of limited resources in the face of growing need; how to increase the accountability of nonprofits to donors and regulators; and how to stay the course and reach established g...