Non-profit Enterprise in Market Economics

Analyses the behaviour of not-for-profit organizations under a variety of conditions and contrasts them with profit maximizing firms, other types of profit-constrained firms and with public bureaucracies. 1. Introduction; 2. Some Empirical Observations: The Scope of the Nonprofit Sector; 3. Theories of NPO Formation; 4. Models of NPO Behavior: Comparisons with PMOs; 5. Models of NPO Behavior: Ideology, Resources and Competition; 6. Comparisons with Other Profit-Constrained Firms; 7. Public Bureaucracy and Private Nonprofits; 8. Policy Issues; Bibliography; Index;