> focusing on the "non-profit" vs. "for-profit" distinction is essentially meaningless when figuring out how a company is incentivized to run its business. They are both subject to the same underlying economic forces and the same incentives.
I think many of the incentives are the same, but not all. Or, better put, all the same incentives exist, but importance is attributed to them differently. I've known desire for recognition and ego to cause problems in an obvious way in a non-profit that while not impossible in a for-pofit organization, would appear to be far less common. I think the converse could be said with regard to monetary incentives. That is, it's not that when I say the incentives are different I mean some exist in one instance and don't in others, but that the relative importance applied to each is apportioned differently, and I view those as "different".
I think many of the incentives are the same, but not all. Or, better put, all the same incentives exist, but importance is attributed to them differently. I've known desire for recognition and ego to cause problems in an obvious way in a non-profit that while not impossible in a for-pofit organization, would appear to be far less common. I think the converse could be said with regard to monetary incentives. That is, it's not that when I say the incentives are different I mean some exist in one instance and don't in others, but that the relative importance applied to each is apportioned differently, and I view those as "different".