Sökning: "nonprofit"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade ordet nonprofit.
1. Logic Salience : Navigating in institutional landscape of funding volatility and ideological disputes in nonprofit hybrid organizing
Sammanfattning : The concept of institutional logics is key to those who investigate organizational change, especially those who seek to understand the tension and impact of combining the logics of market and mission. Such a combination of logics, being an espoused financial sustainability solution for the funding-scarce nonprofit sector, is an increasingly prominent phenomenon. LÄS MER
2. Exceptions in the Swedish School System : Exploring the Conditions Facing Secular and Confessional Nonprofit Schools
Sammanfattning : In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Swedish school system underwent a series of reforms that opened up the system for independent schools funded through vouchers. Since then, for-profit firms have gained significant traction and constitute a far greater share of the school system compared to nonprofits. LÄS MER
3. Members in Tourism Settings : their motivations, behaviours and roles
Sammanfattning : Membership programs are widely-used marketing tools. Many customers belong to a number of different membership programs across a variety of organizations and contexts. Memberships are based on the idea of mutual benefits of a relationship. LÄS MER
4. On the Limits of Nonprofit Firms
Sammanfattning : DescriptionThis thesis consists of two papers. The first gives a game-theoretical treatment of the institutional homogenization of value-oriented firms. It explains why intrinsically motivated, value-oriented firms like non-profits may become similar to for-profit firms in terms of organization and norms. LÄS MER
5. Quality improvement within nonprofit social service providers
Sammanfattning : As a relatively new phenomenon in 2009, Swedish nonprofit social service providers proposed quality improvement as a way to reduce mistakes, use resources more effectively and meet the needs and expectations of clients in a better way. Although similar experiences have been studied in health care, the transfer of quality improvement to nonprofit social services gives a possibility for more knowledge on what enables, and constrains, systematic quality improvement in this specific context. LÄS MER