Non-profit extension in rural Cameroon: A study of demand and supply determinants

Purpose: The paper is aimed at examining the correspondence between the demand-side and supply-side determinants of the existence of non-profit firms. Design/methodology/approach: The case study approach is used to compare the demand-side and supply-side determinants for a single non-profit organization in rural Cameroon. Findings: It is shown that the supply-side determinants of the examined non-profit organization, while interrelated with the demand-side determinants, are not reducible to these. Research limitations/implications: This finding implies the need to steer a middle course between those theoretical approaches that assume no integration between the demand-side and supply-side determinants, and those that assume complete integration between these. Originality/value: The current non-profit economics literature, represented by the above approaches, tends to assume away the complex interaction between the demand-side and supply-side rationales of non-profit organization. The contribution of the present paper is to highlight the limitations of this assumption.