Background The third sector is becoming a more common provider of social and health
services, but little is known about how third sector organisations (TSOs) evaluate their …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the literature on third sector performance
measurement system design. Design/methodology/approach–A systematic literature review …

This article challenges a normative assumption about accountability in organizations: that
more accountability is necessarily better. More specifically, it examines two forms of …

NGO/NPO effectiveness remains a prominent concern for scholars and practitioners, but the
literature on this issue is increasingly fragmented along disciplinary lines. We address this …

Consensus about financial performance measurement remains elusive for nonprofit
organization (NPO) researchers and practitioners alike, due in part to an overall lack of …

Collaboration between nonprofit and business sectors is widely regarded as a value
creation process that benefits society, business, and nonprofit organizations (NPOs). This …

Whereas a lot of resources have been devoted to performance measurement in the nonprofit
sector, the measurement efforts have been hindered by the concerns over credibility of …

Increasingly, government, foundations, and others are asking community-based
organizations for more evaluation information. Although the demand for this information may …

In this article, we explore the evaluation capacity of today's nonprofit organizations. We
report the findings of a cluster analysis that suggest that when it comes to evaluation, there …

In the field of program evaluation, one of the first things evaluators often do to evaluate a
program is to identify the “theory of change” behind the program and create a “logic model” …