Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment

How does the environment of an organization inuence whether workersvoluntarily provide eort? We study the power relationship betweena non-prot unit (e.g. university department, NGO, healthtrust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bu-reaucrat, who supplies some input to the non-prot unit, but hasopportunity costs in doing so (e.g. Dean of faculty, corrupt representative,government agency). We nd that marginal changes in thebalance of power eventually have dramatic eects on donated labor.We also identify when strengthening the non-prot unit decreases andwhen it increases donated labor....