Les approches économiques du tiers secteur. Apports et limites des analyses anglo-saxonnes d'inspiration néo-classique // Economic approaches to the third sector: The contributions and limitations of neo-classical analyses.

Nyssens, Marthe
(2000) Sociologie du Travail — Vol. 42, n° 4, p. 551-565 (2000)

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The third sector has intrigued, and still does, economists who have used the neo-classical theory to conduct studies of it. Various approaches in the literature in English are discussed. From a viewpoint initially adopted to explain market phenomena, they try to account for the presence and relative efficiency of non-profit organizations in the service sector. Two major types of approaches are distinguished: a) demand theories (the theory of social efficiency and the theory of organizations) that inquire into the reasons why actors - consumers or public authorities, for example - resort to non-profit organizations; b) supply theories that try to justify recourse to non-profit organizations as a 'mode of productive organization' by raising questions about information, the opportunism of actors and the specific nature of 'collective goods'. The scope of these approaches is assessed; and the limitations and contradictions of an analytical framework stretched far beyond the bounds of market relations (for which it was initially developed) are pointed out. (C) 2000 Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier SAS.
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Nyssens, M. (2000). Les approches économiques du tiers secteur. Apports et limites des analyses anglo-saxonnes d’inspiration néo-classique // Economic approaches to the third sector: The contributions and limitations of neo-classical analyses. Sociologie du Travail, 42(4), 551-565. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0038-0296(00)01102-X (Original work published 2000)