Nonprofit organization and the division of labor: a theoretical perspective.(Author abstract)(Report) From: Atlantic Economic Journal | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: Valentinov, Vladislav | COPYRIGHT 2006 Atlantic Economic Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This paper asks whether nonprofit organization can have a positive rationale in an economy based on the division of labor, taking into account that the process of the division of labor occurs through profit-motivated economic behavior. By reconsidering existing economic theories of nonprofit organization in the context of the theory of the division of labor, the paper shows nonprofit organization to be an institutional consequence of two limitations on the division of labor: high coordinati...

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