The Economics of Values-Based Organisations by Luigino Bruni
This book looks at the governance of values-based organizations (VBOs), which are organizations with an ideal mission and identity. Examples of these VBOs include non-profit organizations, charities, NGOs, environmental, educational or cultural organizations, and social enterprises. The main objective of any VBO is to evolve and grow without losing its identity, to which its survival is linked in the middle and long run. The focus of the book is the study of the relational and motivational dynamics during identity crisis, using critical mass models and Hirschman's exit and voice framework. This book analyses the dynamics that arise in VBOs when ideal quality deteriorates. On the basis of Hirschman's exit and voice model, it analyses the mechanism that encourages the best subjects, the ones intrinsically motivated who care most about the mission and ideal quality of the organization, to leave the organization if their voice is ignored. By combining Hirschman's and a critical mass model, it is shown that the possible cumulative effects caused by the exit of the intrinsically motivated members, which can bring the organization into a deterioration process. This book offers an analysis of these phenomena, which are usually studied in sociology or political science, by using an economic approach and the language of evolutionary game theory. To combine sociological politics and economics theoretical tool in order to explore crisis in organizations can be considered the main original contribution of this book.-
Economics and Other Disciplines
- Economic Agents and Economic Motives
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Virtues, Morals and Markets
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Normative Economics in the History of Economic Thought
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Health Care Economics
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Economics of Social Relations
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Welfare Economics
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Financial Exclusion and the Poverty Trap
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Working Time
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Human Nature in Modern Economics
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Political Economy, Institutions and Virtue
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Socio-economic Mobility and Low-status Minorities
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Ethics and the Market
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Economics as Social Science
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Social Capital and Economics
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Global Social Economy
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Social Economics
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The Political Economy of Consumer Behavior
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The Economics of Social Responsibility
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Living Wage Movements
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Poverty and Social Exclusion
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The Social Economics of Health Care
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The Economics of Resource Allocation in Health Care
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The Economics of Scientific Misconduct
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The Theory of the Individual in Economics
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The Capability Approach
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The Environmental Consequences of Growth
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Economic and Social Welfare
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Analysis of Socio-Economic Conditions
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How Social Forces Impact the Economy
Luigino Bruni is a Full Professor at LUMSA University, Rome, Italy. Alessandra Smerilli is an Associate Professor at PFSE-Auxilium University, Rome, Italy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415723350 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415723353 |
| Title | The Economics of Values-Based Organisations |
| Author | Luigino Bruni |
| Series | Routledge Advances In Social Economics |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2014-07-28 |
| Number of pages | 150 |
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