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Country concepts and the rational actor trap: Limitations to strategic management of international NGOs

Kohnert, Dirk - 2005

Growing criticism of inefficient development aid demanded new planning instruments of donors, including international … introduced by major INGOs too - have increased the efficiency of development cooperation is open to question. Firstly, there have … medium-term country planning. Secondly, the underlying vision of rationality as a remedy for the major ills of development …

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The Polish model of a social economy with the financial aspects and profits at background: From the general theory to practice

Chojnacka, Katarzyna J. - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 15 (2019) 3, pp. 29-46

This article contains main trends, assumptions and thesis about the social economy in Poland, which the author agree with. The main goal of it, is to bring together fundamental facts depicting the situation of the social economy in Poland (in theory and in practice) with the conditions that must...

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Vergabeverfahren bei öffentlich (mit)finanzierten sozialen Dienstleistungen

Bernitt, Ralf - 2005

Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit soll ein Überblick darüber gegeben werden, wie sich das Vergaberecht derzeit in Deutschland darstellt und welche Möglichkeiten Vergabeverfahren im sozialen Bereich bieten. Aufbauend auf Diskussionen zum Verhältnis von Politik und Dritter Sektor werden Besonderheiten...

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The practice of social entrepreneurship: Theory and the Swedish experience

Stryjan, Yohanan - 2005

The notion of social entrepreneurship has gained increasing recognition in the last years, both as an increasingly visible mode of economic action, and as an important policy tool. The paper outlines a typology that departs from a Schumpeterian view of entrepreneurship, that centers on the...

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Sozialwirtschaft: Zur inhaltlichen Strukturierung eines unklaren Begriffs

Kramer, Jost W. - 2006

Der Begriff der "Sozialwirtschaft" dürfte bei eingehenderer Betrachtung zu den schwierigsten Ausdrücken der deutschen Sprache gehören, denn die mit ihm verbundenen Inhalte wechseln in erheblichem Ausmaß, je nachdem von wem und in welchem Kontext das Wort verwendet wird. Fragt man nach einer...

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Public-Private Service Delivery Arrangements and Incentive Schemes in Developing Asia

Capuno, Joseph J. - 2014

In many countries, public agencies or private firms are gradually moving away from being exclusive providers of goods and services that traditionally were assigned to the state or markets, respectively. Instead, state agencies, both at the national and the local level, and private organizations,...

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Value Oriented Organizations with Value Neutral Hierarchies

Echeverría, Manuel - 2012

hierarchy with an intrinsically motivated manager. The donor can in turn react by employing institutions in order to cope with …

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Do cooperative enterprises create social trust?

Sabatini, Fabio; Modena, Francesca; Tortia, Ermanno - 2012

This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first empirical investigation into the role of different types of enterprises in the creation of social trust. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample of the...

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Consequences of aid volatility for macroeconomic management and aid effectiveness

Hudson, John - 2012

This paper reviews both the literature on aid volatility and also adds to that literature. In general, the focus of this literature has been on the volatility of overall aid, while we focus more on the volatility of the individual aid sectors, e.g., education aid. In doing this, detailed use is...

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Cobb-Douglas production function on FDI in Southeast Europe

Apostolov, Mico - In: Journal of Economic Structures 5 (2016) 10, pp. 1-28

and Slovenia. What we are closely examining are the effects of foreign direct investments on the development of domestic … transformations intended to develop market-based institutions through economic liberalization, where prices are set by market forces …

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