The governance of not-for-profit organizations / edited by Edward L. Glaeser.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Ownership form and trapped capital in the hospital industry / Henry Hansmann, Daniel Kessler, and Mark McClellan -- Does governance matter? The case of art museums / Sharon Oster and Willian N. Goetzmann -- HMO penetration, ownership status, and the rise of hospital advertising / Jason R. Barro and Michael Chu -- Objective functions and compenstation structured in non-profit and for-profit organizations : evidence from the "mixed" hospital industry / Burcay Erus and Burton A. Weisbrod -- A Renaissance instrument to support nonprofits : the sale of private chapels in Florentine churches / Johnathan Katz Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser -- Theories of firm behavior in the nonprofit sector : a synthesis and empirical evaluation / Anup Malani, Tomas Philipson, and Guy David -- Role of nonprofit endowments / Raymond Fisman and R. Glenn Hubbard.

Not-for-profit organizations play a critical role in the American economy, but little attention is paid to the pressures and challenges that affect their governance. We know such firms don?t try to maximize profits, but what do they maximize?. The Governance of Not-for-Profit Organizations tackles that question head-on, assembling experts on the not-for-profit sector to examine the diverse and wide-ranging concerns of universities, art museums, health care providers?and even the medieval church. Contributors look at a number of different aspects of not-for-profit operations, from the problems.

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