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On 14 September 2006, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) gave its decision in Case C-386/04: Centro di Musicologia Walter Stauffer versus Finanzamt München für Körperschaften. This decision will have an important impact on the way European governments deal with charities in other EU member...
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The Italian version of this paper can be found at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1950198 Este documento de trabajo presenta un estudio de caso del Trentino, una de los territorios europeos con la mayor densidad de empresas cooperativas. El sistema de cooperación desarrollados en esta zona fronteriza...
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This article provides one of the first critical looks at the interface between the values of the sustainable food movement and its rising use of litigation. In particular, it focuses on two growing areas of food sustainability litigation "challenges to CAFOs and challenges to the use of...
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Conservation easements raise a number of interesting legal issues, not the least of which is whether a conservation easement is automatically extinguished pursuant to the real property law doctrine of merger if its government or nonprofit holder acquires title to the encumbered land. This...
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One hundred forty characters seems like too small a space for any meaningful information to be exchanged, but Twitter users have found creative ways to get the most out of each Tweet by using different communication tools. This paper looks into how 73 nonprofit organizations use Twitter to...
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Policy reforms to primary health care delivery in New Zealand required government-funded firms overseeing care delivery to be constituted as nonprofit entities with governance shared between consumer and producers. This paper examines the consumer and producer interests in the allocation of...
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Since at least the famous Berle-Dodds debate, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and later its more muscular and structural iteration, progressive corporate law, have been discussed without much progress. The authors consider whether the social enterprise movement, which envisions a new...
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This paper investigates whether engagement in consulting activities has a significant impact on the research performance of academic scientists. The study relies on a sample of 2678 individual faculty, from five Spanish universities, who have been recipients of publicly funded grants or have...
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Over 25% of the US population volunteers. Clary et al. (1998) devised a survey that identifies a volunteer’s primary motive for volunteering. We investigate the effect of tailoring the communications that volunteers receive from their organizations (e.g., printed newsletters, update emails) to...
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Homeboy Industries stands in downtown Los Angeles as a beacon of hope for many. Over the past twenty years, Homeboy has developed from humble beginnings into a bustling enterprise consisting of six businesses that include everything from a bakery, cafe, and catering company to landscaping,...
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