For-profit versus Nonprofit Private Higher Education

Academic Libraries in For-Profit Schools of Higher Education

Jinnie Y. Davis is Librarian Emerita at the North Carolina State University Libraries; e-mail: jinnie_davis@ncsu. edu. Mignon Adams is Professor Emeritus at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia; e-mail: m.adams@ usp.edu. Larry Hardesty is retired library director at Austin College; e-mail: [email protected]. Davis made a presentation on this topic at the 5th Kaser Lecture at Ind...

Strategic management and performance differences: nonprofit versus for-profit health organizations.

Despite mixed and contradictory findings, for-profits (FPs) and nonprofits (NPs) are assumed to be similar health services organizations (HSOs). In this study, a fifteen-item scale assessing HSOs' strategic management capacity was developed and tested using fifty-seven FP and twenty NP organizations. Then, using item response theory, the items were hierarchically profiled to produce two strateg...

Entrepreneurialism and private higher education in Europe

Organizational Diveristy in Chinese Private Higher Education

Measuring community benefits provided by for-profit and nonprofit hospitals.

Nonprofit hospitals are expected to provide benefits to their community in return for being exempt from most taxes. In this paper we develop a new method of identifying activities that should qualify as community benefits and of determining a benchmark for the amount of community benefits a nonprofit hospital should be expected to provide. We then compare estimates of nonprofits' current level ...