From an Organizational Behavior perspective, it is important to recognize the links generated between individuals and the organization that encourage a desire for permanence. After more than a half century of research, Organizational Commitment remains one of the open questions in the Psychology of Organizations. It is considered an essential factor for explaining individual behavior in the org...

Any serious non-profit Board discussion of development strategies inevitably reaches a point where someone asserts, " why aren't we doing more with corporations? Our organization is a perfect match for corporate sponsors… so why aren't we pursuing those opportunities more aggressively? " Well, perhaps your non-profit is a perfect match for corporate sponsorship support. But attracting sponsorsh...

abstract this article aims to provide theoretical model for analyzing challenge of asymmetric information in the third sector of economy (which is the most important challenge, preventing the growth and development of third sector), using the theoretical foundation of contract theory and incentive theory with regard to the special characteristics of third sector derived by its special structure...

This paper presents the findings of an investigation into the role of social technologies in violence prevention non-profit organizational networks. The research was conducted with the cooperation of a partner organization that serves as a knowledge hub connecting various providers of services related to the treatment and prevention of instances of interpersonal violence. From our time working ...

in order to evaluate the economic performance of rehabilitation centers for addicted persons, the welfare organization asked all its centers to send the expense table of esfand 79-80 and fill out the information wanted there. the economic analysis is based upon this information. also, each center is provided with a questionnaire to estimate monthly expenses. according to the preventive scale of...

We conducted multivariate analyses to examine whether high health maintenance organization (HMO) penetration and large share of for-profit health plans in a market reduced hospital cost and revenue growth rates between 1989 and 1998. We found that hospitals in high HMO areas experienced revenue and cost growth rates that were 21 and 18 percentage points, respectively, below hospitals in low HMO...