Companies and their role in society -- The world of non-profit organizations -- Cooperation between companies and non-profit organizations -- Credibility and trust -- Roadmap for cooperation at eye level -- Code for transparent cooperation: guidelines and quality standards for cooperation...

We examine how organizations of different types – public, non-profit and for-profit – engage in consumer-benefiting misconduct (CBM) by examining which patients benefit from hospitals of the three types gaming the market for liver transplants. Consistent with our theory, we find that public...

Catholic churches in Renaissance Florence supported themselves overwhelmingly from the contributions of wealthy citizens. The sale of private chapels within churches to individuals was a significant source of church funds, and facilitated a church construction boom. Chapel sales offered three...

Do not-for-profit hospitals provide better care than for-profit hospitals? We compare patient outcomes in for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals between 1984 and 1994 using a new method for estimating differences across hospitals that yields far more accurate estimates of hospital quality than...