New International Business English or To Profit or Not to Profit

New International Business English

Author: Richard Alexander

New International Business English Updated Edition is a flexible Business English course at the upper-intermediate level, applicable to a wide range of English teaching situations and types of students. This comprehensive course develops all four skills - listening, speaking, reading, writing -through a wide variety of tasks which reflect closely the world of work. Key features of the second edition Student's Book: - learner-centred approach - realistic integrated communication activities - systematic coverage of the essential business tasks - thorough vocabulary development - frequent opportunities for discussions New International Business English consists of: - Student's Book - Workbook - Teacher's Book - Student's Book Cassette Set/Audio CD Set - Workbook Cassette Set/Audio CD Set The New International Business English Video and accompanying website are designed to be used with this course.

Interesting book: Behavior in Organizations or International Economics and International Economic Policy

To Profit or Not to Profit: The Commercial Transformation of the Nonprofit Sector

Author: Burton A A Weisbrod

Nonprofit organizations are changing dramatically in the ways they are financed. They are becoming increasingly commercial, operating more like private firms. Far more is involved than the generation of revenue. As donations decline in importance and user fees and money-raising ancillary activities come to dominate, they bring side-effects on the social missions that justify public support. This book examines these little-recognized relationships for the overall nonprofit charitable sector and then focuses on each of six industries; important differences are found among hospitals, universities, social service providers, zoos, museums, and public broadcasting.

What People Are Saying

Susan Rose-Ackerman
Nonprofits are increasingly becoming competitors and collaborators with private firms and government agencies. In this useful book Burton Weisbrod has brought together important original research that helps us define and understand these important new relationships.

Table of Contents:

	List of contributors
	Foreword
	Preface
1	The nonprofit mission and its financing: Growing links between nonprofits and the rest of the economy	1
2	Competition, commercialization, and the evolution of nonprofit organizational structures	25
3	Modeling the nonprofit organization as a multiproduct firm: A framework for choice	47
4	Pricing and rationing by nonprofit organizations with distributional objectives	65
5	Differential taxation of nonprofits and the commercialization of nonprofit revenues	83
6	Interdependence of commercial and donative revenues	105
7	Conversion from nonprofit to for-profit legal status: Why does it happen and should anyone care?	129
8	Commercialism in nonprofit hospitals	151
9	Universities as creators and retailers of intellectual property: Life-sciences research and commercial development	169
10	Commercialism in nonprofit social service associations: Its character, significance, and rationale	195
11	Zoos and aquariums	217
12	Commerce and the muse: Are art museums becoming commercial?	233
13	The funding perils of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting	249
14	Commercialism among nonprofits: Objectives, opportunities, and constraints	271
15	Conclusions and public-policy issues: Commercialism and the road ahead	287
App	IRS Forms 990 and 990-T for nonprofit organizations	306
	References	317
	Index	336