Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment

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Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment

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Grout, Paul () (University of Bristol)
Schnedler, Wendelin () (University of Heidelberg)

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Wendelin Schnedler

Abstract

How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bureaucrat, who supplies some input to the non-profit unit, but has opportunity costs in doing so (e.g. Dean of faculty, corrupt representative, government agency). We find that marginal changes in the balance of power eventually have dramatic effects on donated labor. We also identify when strengthening the non-profit unit decreases and when it increases donated labor.

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- Grout, Paul & Schnedler, Wendelin, 2008. "Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment," Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications 08-17, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim & Sonderforschungsbereich 504, University of Mannheim. [Downloadable!]
- Paul A. Grout & Wendelin Schnedler, 2008. "Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment," The Centre for Market and Public Organisation 08/202, Department of Economics, University of Bristol, UK. [Downloadable!]
- Paul Grout & Wendelin Schnedler, 2008. "Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment," Working Papers 0474, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics, revised Sep 2008. [Downloadable!]

Find related papers by JEL classification:
L30 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - General
M50 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Personnel Economics - - - General
H10 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - General
H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

NEP-ALL-2008-09-29 (All new papers)
NEP-LAB-2008-09-29 (Labour Economics)
NEP-SOC-2008-09-29 (Social Norms & Social Capital)

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