Non-profit organizations in a bureaucratic environment


Grout, Paul ; Schnedler, Wendelin


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URL: http://ub-madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/2311
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-23118
Document Type: Working paper
Year of publication: 2008
The title of a journal, publication series: None
Publication language: English
Institution: School of Law and Economics > Sonstige - Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft und Volkswirtschaftslehre
MADOC publication series: Sonderforschungsbereich 504 > Rationalitätskonzepte, Entscheidungsverhalten und ökonomische Modellierung (Laufzeit 1997 - 2008)
Subject: 330 Economics
Classification: JEL: J32 H11 H42 M52 ,
Subject headings (SWD): Nonprofit-Organisation , Arbeitsangebot , Ehrenamtliche Tätigkeit , Spende , Sozialverhalten , Bürokratie , Theorie
Keywords (English): donated labor , intrinsic motivation , non-profit organizations , power within organizations
Abstract: How does the environment of an organization infuence 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.
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