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100			_aZhao, Jianzhi and Lu, Jiahuan. _920971
245			_aDees government punish nonprofits for high administrative costs in contracting decisions?
260			_aAmerican Review of Public Administration
300			_a50(3), Apr, 2020: p.286-296
520			_aAs government financing of nonprofit organizations to deliver services and implement policies has become a common practice in the public administration landscape, the question of what factors affect government’s source selection has emerged as a significant one. Within this strand of research, how nonprofits’ administrative costs affect their receipt of government contracts is still not fully understood. This article explores that relationship using a large panel data set of U.S.-based international development nonprofits from 1967 to 2014. Different model specifications consistently demonstrate an inverted U-shaped relationship between a nonprofit’s level of administrative costs and its amount of government contracts. In particular, as a nonprofit’s level of administrative costs increases, its amount of government contracts will initially increase, but after its level of administrative costs reaches approximately 16% to 18% of total expenses, further increases in the nonprofit’s level of administrative costs will reduce its amount of government contracts. These findings have implications for both public and nonprofit management.- Reproduced
650			_aGovernment contracting, Government–Nonprofit relations, Administrative costs, Overhead costs _919224
773			_aAmerican Review of Public Administration
906			_aGOVERNMENT CONTRACTING
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