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Innovation in Nonprofit Organizations
Author(s) -
Zimmermann H.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
annals of public and cooperative economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.526
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-8292
pISSN - 1370-4788
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8292.00125
Subject(s) - incentive , private sector , business , empirical evidence , public sector , private enterprise , industrial organization , public economics , economics , economic growth , market economy , finance , economy , philosophy , epistemology
Innovation as the driving force behind the economic growth of high‐income countries has almost exclusively been researched for the private enterprise sector. Nonproft organizations as a growing sector also have to be assessed for their contribution. They are first grouped by their different outputs (proximity to public versus private good provision). Next, for each output group fields of activities are identified, which exhibit differences in management regimes and incentive structure. This leads to hypotheses (and some empirical evidence) on innovative behavior and on barriers to innovation. The result: Their potential for contributing is far from being fully used.