Markets,governance, and university priorities: Evidence on undergraduate education and research

I investigate the effects of differences in market context and governance arrangements on undergraduate education and separately budgeted research at both public and private universities. Public universities faced with little competition and universities that rely heavily on government subsidies relative to tuition tend to have larger undergraduate enrollments, fewer small classes, lower graduation rates, and are more likely to engage in separately budgeted research than universities with the opposite characteristics. In addition, Catholic universities offer fewer small classes but have higher graduation rates than independent private universities, while other church-affiliated universities spend less on separately budgeted research.Submitted: 23 July 2001, Accepted: 29 July 2002, JEL Classification: I22, I28, L30Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 22, 2001, and the research conference on Its Better to Rely on Well-designed Institutions than on Well-behaved People, at the University of California, Los Angeles, May 18-19, 2001. I thank Dennis Coates, David Epstein, Susanne Lohmann, Robert Pahre, and Matthew Potoski for helpful comments.     

A Dawn of Convergence?: Third sector policy regimes in the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ cluster

Abstract

Since the 2008 financial crisis, the third sector policy and regulatory regimes in the ‘Anglo-Saxon cluster’ have been subject to considerable policy churn. Comparing the reforms in the ‘meta-policies,’ regulations and financing in England, US, Canada and Australia, this analysis identifies both significant policy convergence and divergence. A new ideational landscape has emerged that is dominated by a focus on transparency, impact and social innovation. Convergence is not the whole story, however. In particular, the overarching meta-policies are absent, increasingly weak or divisive, suggesting a future characterized by the sporadic intervention of parochial politics and the likelihood of increased difference.     

The whole is more than the sum of its parts? How HRM is configured in nonprofit organizations and why it matters

Evidence points to the central importance of configurations of mutually reinforcing HR practices as they are assumed to provide the basis for understanding how HRM relates to organizational performance. While progress has been made regarding the construction and effects of HR architectures in the for-profit literature, few studies investigate how HR architectures are configured in nonprofit organizations (NPOs). Therefore, this paper aims to advance a conceptual model that captures the relationship between ideal types of HR architectures and performance in NPOs. We develop theoretical propositions that provide further insight on the HR programs and HR practices that define the HR architectures and entail implications about variations in performance outcomes in NPOs.     

Drawing from a bottomless well? Exploring the resilience of value-based psychological contracts in voluntary organizations

In an era of increased involvement by the third sector in the delivery of social services due to public sector outsourcing, this paper explores the resilience of employee psychological contracts in voluntary organizations in the context of their close relationship with state funding bodies. The results suggest that value-laden psychological contracts exhibit some resilience when state funding bodies interfere with the organizational mission of voluntary organizations. However, there are clear limits as to how far value-based aspects of the psychological contract compensate for unfulfilled obligations on the economic and socio-emotional dimensions caused by externally driven cost pressures. The paper suggests serious implications for HR practitioners and wider concerns relating to the quality of care delivered to the vulnerable.     

非营利精神塑造探析

非营利精神,影响着非营利组织的价值取向和行为方式,它的产生基于一定的文化基础。我国非营利组织中非营利精神的重塑影响着这些组织今后的发展,而精神的重塑又应当考虑宗旨、动机、愿景、影响、品牌等综合因素。     

“第三部门”财务管理企业化研究

文章基于第三部门的特点,分析了其财务管理所特有的问题,并指出要解决这些问题,第三部门财务管理必须做到适当企业化,协调支出结构,提高自营收入比重,进行适当的市场化筹资和提高财务透明度。     

Can’t You Count? Public Service Delivery and Standardized Measurement Challenges – The Case of Community Composting

Abstract

Performance measurement is increasingly important for UK third sector organizations (TSOs) driven in part by policymakers’ interest in harnessing them as deliverers of public services. This article examines a developing and little researched constituency of TSOs – community composters – which has become attractive to policymakers facing obligations to reduce, recycle, and reuse waste. The research, which included the first extensive survey of this constituency combined with a purposive case study investigation, found a highly diverse set of organizations. The analysis proposes five types of community composters and explores the challenges to developing a standardized measurement regime.     

The web-based financial reporting adopted by the listed companies in the Athens Stock Exchange

Web-based corporate reporting is the provision of financial information through the Internet. Other companies prefer to disclose their financial information in order to satisfy their investors and to attract new ones while others prefer to provide as less information as possible. The purpose of this paper is twofold： first it provides a critical examination of the main reporting criteria followed by the Greek listed companies, in order to point out how many of these companies present these criteria. Second, it considers how the industry sector of the listed companies or their capitalization category is related with their disclosure degree of financial reporting.     

关注NTYAA的实施,警惕新的贸易技术壁垒

本文对NTTAA的产生、主要内容及其实施进行了深度分析，并提醒人们NTTAA的实施可能产生新的贸易技术壁垒。     

公益型非营利组织绩效预算与绩效评价的理论探讨

公益型非营利组织的运营颇具独特性,它们不受“利润动机”的驱使,而是依靠“使命绩效”的凝聚力来引导运营。在此,我们将公益型非营利组织的运营目标归为“绩效最优”,并将其贯彻于整个组织运营管理的过程之中,通过两大支柱手段——绩效预算和绩效评价的结合运用,提出一个理论框架,以求改善公益型非营利组织的绩效。     

Effectiveness of Budgetary Entities

This paper acquaints readers with the practice of effectiveness evaluation in the public sector. The purpose of this paper is to study performance measurement according to the changes in public sector reform by focusing on performance-based budgeting in Russia. This paper suggests that the construction process of performance measurement should be aligned with outputs and outcomes of budget policy. The main research materials for this paper are based on data from a survey and follow-up interviews of budgetary managers and accountants. The survey result sets priorities and weighted some indicators to the measurement of effectiveness in the public sector. The data of this study were not large, but the study led to understanding how effectiveness is seen by budgetary managers and how measurement systems should be structured. Texts and contents from different sources such as financial annual reports and budgetary entities＇ websites provided insightful and interesting findings.