The Support Paradox in Community Enterprise Experiments in The Netherlands* In many European countries, community entrepreneurship is increasingly considered as a means to initiate small-scale urban regeneration. However, residents in deprived communities are often viewed to lack key entrepreneurial attributes and skills. This paper reports a unique experiment in the Netherlands with nascent co...

Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility Society’s demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the “psychology and economics” of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which reflects a complex interplay of genuine altruism, soc...

Charitable bequests are a major source of income for charities but surprisingly little is known about them. The aim of this paper is to propose a multi-stage framework for analysing the bequest decision and to examine the evidence for Great Britain provided by new data on estates. The novelty of the framework is that it distinguishes between the different steps that lead to a charitable bequest...

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A positive shock to funding, such as a major donation, causes an optimizing university to raise its admissions standards and reduce tuition charges net of financial aid across all student categories. However, the shock’s effect on enrollment may not be uniform. Student categories given little weight in the university’s objective function may be treated as “inferior goods,” that is, positive sho...

Adopting a person-centred approach, we integrate the job demands-control-support model with relational work design theory to investigate employee profiles involving autonomy, workload, social support and prosocial characteristics (representing combined influence of task significance beneficiary contact). For sample Australian not-for-profit employees ( N = 2421), identified four profiles: ‘acti...

L’objectif de ce travail est d’identifier les conditions d’émergence des projets entrepreneuriaux hybrides. Les hybrides étudiés intègrent une diversité d’acteurs et logiques en centrant leur activité sur la création valeur sociale grâce à ressources mixtes. L’hybridité d’un projet implique présence irrémédiable tensions organisationnelles dues aux parfois contradictoires traversant le projet. ...

Does charitable giving respond to new demands, and if so, does the response come at the expense of other charitable causes? To answer these questions we exploit exogenous variation in need arising from the random event of a nearby tornado. We use location fixed effects estimators and examine changes in charitable donations claimed for tax deductions in IRS data on individual income taxes by geo...

The paper analyzes the cooperative determination of the interchange fee by member banks in a payment card association. The interchange fee is the “access charge” paid by the merchants’ banks, the acquirers, to cardholders’ banks, the issuers. The paper develops a framework in which banks and merchants may have market power and consumers and merchants decide rationally on whether to buy or accep...