Comparison of Nonprofit Organizations and Profit Firms: Do We Compare Units or Their Environments?

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Comparison of Nonprofit Organizations and Profit Firms: Do We Compare Units or Their Environments?

Original language description

The contribution focuses on a comparative methodology of effectiveness of nonprofit organizations and profit firms. The comparison of effectiveness of these two organizational forms has been dealt with in several studies, however, their results have been vague. At the same time there are only a few research papers which have concentrated on a comparative methodology. The objective of the contribution is thus to introduce some partial conclusions of the author’s dissertation connected with a comparative methodology of different legal forms by way of an example of a specific research project in the field of secondary general education in the Czech Republic. The possibility to compare effectiveness of profit firms and nonprofit organizations is very limited for two reasons. Nonprofit organizations represent a highly heterogeneous group thanks to which the comparison is made more difficult. Nonprofit organizations occur sporadically with other types of providers in mixed markets, the markets are usually separated. The main recommendation in case of comparison of two types of organizational forms is to, first of all, carry out a thorough analysis of environment and markets and define factors which are different for each type of an organization. Conclusions concerning nonprofit organizational effectiveness can only be drawn for a specific area of public services at a specific time.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50602 - Public administration

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Article name in the collection

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CURRENT TRENDS IN PUBLIC SECTOR RESEARCH

ISBN

9788021084483

ISSN

2336-1239

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

347-355

Publisher name

Masarykova univerzita

Place of publication

Brno

Event location

Šlapanice

Event date

Jan 20, 2017

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

UT code for WoS article

000402427100045