"Wegen der zunehmenden Bedeutung der NPOs war es an der Zeit, die Unterschiede, aber auch die Gemeinsamkeiten von Profit- und Nonprofit-Organisationen systematisch in einem Lehrbuch aufzubereiten. Den beiden Autoren ist dies nicht nur inhaltlich, sondern auch in didaktischer Hinsicht...

Extending the existing theories of social movement - especially Klandermans' and Oegema's (1987) social movement participation model - with social identity theory and identity theory, the authors propose that identification and identity salience play an important role in eliciting social...

This paper examines the efficiency of the German hospital sector over time and the relative efficiency of public, welfare (both nonprofit) and private (for-profit) hospital sectors using data from the Federal Statistics Office of German hospitals. Efficiency scores were computed using Data...

The topic of "management" and nonprofit organizations (NPOs) continues to fascinate scholars. This paper draws on varying theoretical perspectives to explore their respective contributions to our knowledge of NPOs. The two longstanding and contrasting disciplines of economics and sociology have...