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Incentives in Nonprofit Organizations: Evidence from Hospitals
James A. Brickley University of Rochester - Simon Graduate School of Business R. Lawrence Van Horn Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University February 7, 2000 Simon School of Business Working Paper No. FR 00-02 Abstract: This paper examines the incentives of CEOs in a large sample of nonprofit hospitals. The evidence suggests that the relations between financial performance (return on assets) and CEO turnover and compensation are as strong in nonprofit hospitals as in for-profit hospitals and other for-profit corporations. We find little evidence that nonprofit hospitals provide explicit incentives for their CEOs to focus on altruistic activities. The results add to the collective evidence that there is little distinction between the behaviors of nonprofit and for-profit hospitals. We provide some evidence that these similarities are due to competition in the marketplace, not identical objective functions.
JEL Classifications: G3, I1, L2, L3 Working Paper SeriesDate posted: February 14, 2000 ; Last revised: April 02, 2002Suggested CitationContact Information
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