Purpose – The paper is aimed at examining the correspondence between the demand-side and supply-side determinants of the existence of non-profit firms. Design/methodology/approach – The case study approach is used to compare the demand-side and supply-side determinants for a single...

Purpose – Managerial nonpecuniary preferences have been emphasised by the behavioural theories of nonprofit organisation but only weakly related to this organisation's market failure theories. The present paper aims to fill this gap by examining the ways in which the market failure-addressing...

Purpose: Managerial nonpecuniary preferences have been emphasised by the behavioural theories of nonprofit organisation but only weakly related to this organisation's market failure theories. The present paper aims to fill this gap by examining the ways in which the market failure‐addressing...