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A Study On The Price Mechanism Of NPO

Posted on:2004-08-01Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:M D DingFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360092991363Subject:Industrial Economics
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China's reform, which began from the end of 1970s, is an abroad and profound social revolution. In this course, the development of NPO is the symbol of China's modernization in social domain, which is also the internal requisition on China's reform in social political and economical domains.Actually, profit or non-profit is a price problem. If we regard all human activities as exchange activities, then in any exchange, the price mechanism is the foundation to solve the basic social problem of what to product, how to product and for whom to product. However, owning to differences exist in exchanges' nature and object, exchange activities for non-profit apply for exchange institutions which differ from those applied by profit exchange activities, and take on different kinds of price mechanism as well. Commonly, the exchange for profit is usually based on private property rights, which occurs in private goods' fields and solve the problems of "which, how and for whom" to product by market bargaining and money votes. However, based on communal property rights, non-profit exchange is always in the fields of quasi-public goods, and solve the problems of "which, how and for whom" to product by the payment of beneficiary under the public regulation. So, the difference between profit and non-profit is ultimately ascribed to the difference of price mechanism.Study the price mechanism of NPO, and starts from this to probe the efficient organizational structure of institution that make the NPO's price mechanism goes efficiently, the mechanism of NPO's supply and demand, the mechanism of price forming and operating, and price regulate policies, etc, which is helpful to promote the normal and healthful development of such organizations. At the same time, based on the understanding of broad sense of price to probe the price mechanism existes in "public field", which is a attempt to deepen and develop the price theory, by this way we can discover the internal relationship between the organizational structure of institution and functioning of price mechanism. Besides this, the content that this study will cover is a favorable supplement of the industrial organization theory undoubtedly.Ascertaining the object of study definitely is the premise of social science research. To define NPO in China, we'd not only take China's historical and practical conditions into account, but grasp its developmental direction in the future. At the mean time, we'd not only refer to the normative policy experience of Occident countries, but alsoconsider the situation of our country and the particular research needs fully.According to above principles, I define the NPO in China as the non-power adhered organization which is not for profit purpose and provides the society with communal service via voluntary action. This definition gives prominence to three basic characteristics of NPO: (1) non-profit tendency. It's the most important character to distinguish NPO from other organizations. According to this definition, productive cooperation club which distribute surplus is not NPO. (2) providing commonwealth via voluntary activities, which makes NPO differs from government and corporations for profit. The government is the organization which provides commonwealth by force, and corporations provide self-interest via voluntary. (3) non-power adhered, which means that NPO is the social intermediate organization that transcending government and corporations for profit, and differs from market intermediate organization as well.It is important to constitute NPO and turn it to be the third social power along with government and corporation for profit. In particularly, NPO posses the social and economic functions of creating and accumulating social capital for social development, improving supply efficiency of public goods, satisfying diversiform communal demands preferably, and precipitating the social base of democracy.Classification of NPO provides the foundation for policy analysis and academic research. For the reason that NPO is m...
Keywords/Search Tags:Non-profit organization, Price mechanism, Price regulation
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