Název: Essays on Competition and Entrepreneurial Choice between Nonprofit and For-profit Firms
Překlad názvu: Essays on Competition and Entrepreneurial Choice between Nonprofit and For-profit Firms
Autoři: Brhlíková, Petra ; Ortmann, Andreas (vedoucí práce) ; Schlesinger, Mark (oponent) ; Handy, Femida (oponent)
Typ dokumentu: Disertační práce
Rok: 2007
Jazyk: eng
Abstrakt: In my four dissertation essays I focus on the entrepreneurial motivations to enter the nonprofit sector, the objectives of nonprofit institutions, and the competition between nonprofit and for-profit firms within an industry. The literature review looks at the nonprofit sector in a more general way, touching on its size and importance to society, its focus the characteristics that distinguish it from the for-profit sector. To motivate three theoretical chapters, I survey the literature on managerial motivations to enter the nonprofit sector, objective functions that nonprofits pursue, and mixed competition. Two theoretical essays explore competition between one nonprofit and one for-profit firm in the market for an excludable public good. The two competing firms follow different objectives and face different constraints and both optimize with respect to quality and price. Consumers are heterogeneous with respect to quality. The firms' behavior in mixed competition is compared to the nonprofit duopoly and for-profit duopoly. Among other results, the model reveals that the nonprofit firm is a natural leader in the market. The for- profit firm prefers a nonprofit competitor to a for-profit one, and it is better off when its nonprofit competitor is efficient and subsidized. The robustness of these...

Instituce: Fakulty UK (VŠKP) (web)
Informace o dostupnosti dokumentu: Dostupné v digitálním repozitáři UK.
Původní záznam: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/8888

Trvalý odkaz NUŠL: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-271505


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