Arbeitspapier

Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment

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 bu- reaucrat, 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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Discussion Paper Series ; No. 474

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Publicly Provided Private Goods
Personnel Economics: Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
Thema
donated labor
intrinsic motivation
non-profit organizations
power within organizations
Nonprofit-Organisation
Arbeitsangebot
Ehrenamtliche Arbeit
Fundraising
Soziales Verhalten
Bürokratie
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Grout, Paul
Schnedler, Wendelin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
(wo)
Heidelberg
(wann)
2008

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Grout, Paul
  • Schnedler, Wendelin
  • University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2008

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