Human Services and the Voluntary Sector: Towards a 

Theory of Comparative Advantage

Billis, David; Glennerster, Howard

doi:10.1017/s0047279497005175

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“…Resource insuffi ciency is one of the inherent limitations of the voluntary sector, refl ecting the diffi culties with generating resources on a scale that is both adequate and suffi ciently reliable to cope with the range of human problems it seeks to address (Salamon 1987;Billis and Glennerster 1998;Kramer 1981;Lewis 1998;Ostrander 1989;Grønbjerg 1994;Fowler 1995;Murray Svidroňová et al 2016). Th is is, to a considerable extent, a product of the "free rider" problem inherent in the production of collective goods.…”

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Profitable Nonprofits? Reward-Based Crowdfunding in the Czech Republic

Hrůzová¹,

Vaceková²

2017

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy

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Th is paper deals with crowdfunding as a new and alternative mechanism of nonprofi t funding which has thus far attracted little scholarly attention in the Czech context. It focuses on the factors that aff ect a campaign's overfunding rate and determines whether these factors are consistent among diff erent forms of project creators. A comprehensive analysis of reward-based crowdfunding in the Czech Republic was conducted based on the data from 617 projects using the Czech crowdfunding platform Hithit that were categorized according to the status of the project creator. Using binary logistic regression, a statistic estimation on an overall sample and on a sample of purely nonprofi t projects was executed in order to observe if the outcomes diff er. Th e key empirical fi nding is that NGOs tend to raise fewer additional funds than other forms of project creators. Except for certain specifi c factors, the eff ects of the examined factors were consistent across all samples. Th is new and innovative approach to resource insuffi ciency by using alternative funding sources presents an important and unexplored research gap in the (post-) transitive context of nonprofi t sector studies, enabling a view of policy implications for Czech NGOs.

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Profitable Nonprofits? Reward-Based Crowdfunding in the Czech Republic

Hrůzová¹,

Vaceková²

2017

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy

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“…17 If we look at the nature of demand for human services, third sector organisations are effective and efficient in providing services for consumers who suffers financial, personal, societal or community disadvantage. 18 For the past few decades, these organisations are progressively becoming more central to the health and well being of the society. Third sector organisations provide a range of general services that facilitate valuable community interactions.…”

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Role of third sector in promoting health outcomes in Kerala: a sociological study

Mubeena

Akram

2016

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…Literature on participation is mixed on this point and highlights the presence of conflict on values or aims as barriers to meaningful participation. In particular, interested actors on the demand and supply side would hold different values and priorities, indicating potentially conflicting situations (Billis and Glennerster, 1998;Kendall and Knapp, 2000). Moreover, since the value added by each production activity varies and generates differential impacts for patrons and communities at large (both in monetary and non-monetary terms), we could argue that one of the concurrent determinants to a failure to cooperate is the persistent lack of mechanisms suitable to coordinate choices and actions, especially in the presence of an articulated division of labour and/or decision-making power.…”

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Why Social Enterprises are Asking to Be Multi-Stakeholder and Deliberative: An Explanation Around the Costs of Exclusion

Sacchetti

Borzaga

2015

SSRN Journal

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The study of multi-stakeholdership (and multi-stakeholder social enterprises in particular) is only at the start. Entrepreneurial choices which have emerged spontaneously, as well as the first legal frameworks approved in this direction, lack an adequate theoretical support. The debate itself is underdeveloped, as the existing understanding of organisations and their aims resist an inclusive, public interest view of enterprise. Our contribution aims at enriching the thin theoretical reflections on multi-stakeholdership, in a context where they are already established, i.e. that of social and personal services.The aim is to provide an economic justification on why the governance structure and decisionmaking praxis of the firm needs to account for multiple stakeholders. In particular with our analysis we want: a) to consider production and the role of firms in the context of the "public interest" which may or may not coincide with the non-profit objective; b) to ground the explanation of firm governance and processes upon the nature of production and the interconnections between demand and supply side; c) to explain that the costs associated with multi-stakeholder governance and deliberation in decision-making can increase internal efficiency and be "productive" since they lower internal costs and utilise resources that otherwise would go astray.The key insight of this work is that, differently from major interpretations, property costs should be compared with a more comprehensive range of costs, such as the social costs that emerge when the supply of social and personal services is insufficient or when the identification of aims and means is not shared amongst stakeholders. Our model highlights that when social costs derived from exclusion are high, even an enterprise with costly decisional processes, such as the multistakeholder, can be the most efficient solution amongst other possible alternatives.

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Human Services and the Voluntary Sector: Towards a Theory of Comparative Advantage

Abstract: Original citation:Billis, David and Glennerster, Howard (1998) Human services and the voluntary sector: towards a theory of comparative advantage. Journal of social policy, 27 (1). pp. 79-98.

Cited by 161 publications

References 14 publications

Profitable Nonprofits? Reward-Based Crowdfunding in the Czech Republic

Profitable Nonprofits? Reward-Based Crowdfunding in the Czech Republic

Role of third sector in promoting health outcomes in Kerala: a sociological study

Why Social Enterprises are Asking to Be Multi-Stakeholder and Deliberative: An Explanation Around the Costs of Exclusion

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