Metaprofit: Overcoming the “for- profit” - “non-profit” dichotomy

This article explores the idea of metaprofit as an alternative way to understand organizations shifting the attention from profit as a main determinant of organizational identity - and a paradigm useful to understand corporate behavior - towards other elements that are beyond profit, as for example: the purpose or the mission of an organization and the value creation horizon of a partnership. This idea is applied not only to new organizational forms but also to other traditional market agents as family businesses, small and medium enterprises, cooperatives, other organizational phenomena like private-public-partnerships and a broader spectrum of cross-sector partnerships involved in collaborative value creation