Rethinking Nonprofit Commercialization: The Case of the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14560%2F17%3A00094545" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14560/17:00094545 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11266-016-9772-6" target="_blank" >http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11266-016-9772-6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11266-016-9772-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11266-016-9772-6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Rethinking Nonprofit Commercialization: The Case of the Czech Republic

Original language description

Some nonprofit economists tend to see nonprofit commercialization as a moral dilemma because commercial activities may secure organizational survival at the cost of undermining the mission orientation. The present paper argues that this type of moral framing of the commercialization debate is hardly adequate for the transitional context of the Czech nonprofit sector which is still struggling to develop its distinct institutional identity. Given that financial independence is part of this identity, commercial activities help nonprofits to emancipate themselves from the state that used to be paternalistic in the past. On this basis, the paper underscores the institutional nature of the commercialization phenomenon in the Czech Republic. Commercialization decisions of Czech nonprofit managers are shown to be heavily influenced by the current institutional and regulatory environment that explicitly promotes nonprofit self-financing initiatives. If nonprofit commercialization is understood as an institutional phenomenon, then its moral significance is best captured in terms of institutional ethics rather than individual ethics of nonprofit managers which seems to be predominant in the Anglo-Saxon literature. After presenting the recent empirical findings on self-financing, the paper concludes by stressing the interrelation between the semantic and ethical aspects of the commercialization concept.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50200 - Economics and Business

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-13119S" target="_blank" >GA16-13119S: Performance management in public administration - theory vs. practices in the Czech Republic and other CEE countries</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations

ISSN

0957-8765

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

28

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

2103-2123

UT code for WoS article

000412120500012

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84982908189