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Quality, reputation and the choice of organizational form

[journal article]

Vlassopoulos, Michael

Abstract

"This paper revisits the hypothesis that nonprofit organizations emerge in markets that are characterized by contractual incompleteness because they ensure consumers against opportunistic behavior. We extend the Glaeser and Shleifer (2001) framework which studies an entrepreneur's optimal choice of ... view more

"This paper revisits the hypothesis that nonprofit organizations emerge in markets that are characterized by contractual incompleteness because they ensure consumers against opportunistic behavior. We extend the Glaeser and Shleifer (2001) framework which studies an entrepreneur's optimal choice of organizational form and service quality when quality is non-contractible into a repeated interaction setting. The main result is that when reputations can be sustained, then for-profit status is the preferred organizational form and high quality services are ensured. This finding suggests that existing explanations of nonprofit organizations that focus entirely on contractual imperfections in the producer/consumer relationship may be inadequate." [author's abstract]... view less

Keywords
reputation

Classification
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Economics
Applied Psychology

Free Keywords
Nonprofit Status; Contractual Incompleteness

Document language
English

Publication Year
2009

Page/Pages
p. 515-527

Journal
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 71 (2009) 2

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2009.02.014

Status
Postprint; peer reviewed

Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)


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