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This article looks at patterns of how nonprofits move location, comparing those that receive federal contracts from those that don't. The research question asks: can the federal government induce nonprofit contractors to locate closer to people in need.
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Ecological theories view organizations as fixed; public administration scholars have proven that markets for public services are very thin. We argue that governments can use contracts to induce contractors to move location, potentially alleviating the difficulties with thin markets.
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This article was created for the Symposium on Public Policy and Nonprofit Organizations held in Washington, DC (November 2016).
Brent Never
University of Missouri- Kansas City
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This page is a summary of: Moving to Need: The Effect of Federal Contracts on Service Provider Location, Nonprofit Policy Forum, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/npf-2017-0008.
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