Rethinking Nonprofit Commercialization: The Case of the Czech Republic

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Rethinking Nonprofit Commercialization: The Case of the Czech Republic

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Rethinking Nonprofit Commercialization: The Case of the Czech Republic

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50200 - Economics and Business

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA16-13119S" target="_blank" >GA16-13119S: Řízení výkonnosti ve veřejné správě - teorie vs. praxe v České republice a v jiných zemích střední a východní Evropy</a><br>

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations

ISSN

0957-8765

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

28

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

5

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

2103-2123

Kód UT WoS článku

000412120500012

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-84982908189