Introduction

The focus of this book is on the economics of non-profit organizations’ management. The social and economic roles of non-profit organizations all over the world are obvious, as becomes visible from the historical overview of the non-profit sector in the West by Robbins (2006) and in the US by Hall (2006), and from the description of the current position of non-profit organizations in a sample of 35 economically and socially very diverse countries by Anheier and Salamon (2006) (see also Boris and Steuerle (2006) for the situation in the US). As the way non-profit organizations are managed impacts on their functioning, non-profit management is important when it comes to making the organization’s social and economic roles maximally operational.