A SBM-DEA based performance evaluation and optimization for social organizations participating in community and home-based elderly care services

Q Shao, J Yuan, J Lin, W Huang, J Ma, H Ding - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The community and home-based elderly care service system has been proved an effective
pattern to mitigate the elderly care dilemma under the background of accelerating aging in …

Outsourced austerity or improved services? A systematic review and thematic synthesis of the experiences of social care providers and commissioners in quasi …

AM Bach-Mortensen, J Barlow - Social Science & Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Social care services are commonly delivered by a combination of for-profit, public, and non-
profit sector providers. These services are often commissioned in quasi-markets, in which …

Nonprofit capacity and social performance: Mapping the field and future directions

N Nordin, A Khatibi, SMF Azam - Management Review Quarterly, 2024 - Springer
Nonprofit organizations are critical actors in the Sustainable Development Goals as they
provide a wide range of social services to the community and contribute to creating a …

Provider ownership and indicators of service quality: Evidence from Swedish residential care homes

R Broms, C Dahlström… - Journal of Public …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The provision of public services by for-profit and non-profit organizations is widespread in
OECD countries, but the jury is still out on whether outsourcing has improved service quality …

The impact of innovation management on the performance of NPOs: Applying the Tidd and Bessant model (2009)

F do Adro, CI Fernandes… - Nonprofit Management and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The literature is consistent in stating that innovation helps in improving the performance of
nonprofit organizations (NPOs), highlighting how there remains the scope for further …

[HTML][HTML] Outsourcing and children's social care: A longitudinal analysis of inspection outcomes among English children's homes and local authorities

AM Bach-Mortensen, B Goodair, J Barlow - Social science & medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Most residential children's social care services in England, including children's homes, are
operated by for-profit companies, but the implications of this development are not well …

Sector bias and the credibility of performance information: An experimental study of elder care provision

KJ Meier, M Song, JA Davis… - Public Administration …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Reporting government performance to the public is key tool in improving accountability.
Some evidence, however, has shown that individuals' anti‐public sector biases may distort …

Interpreting performance information: Motivated reasoning or unbiased comprehension? A replication and extension

L Brogaard, JK Madsen, OH Petersen - Public Administration, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite a growing number of studies on how prior beliefs distort citizens' interpretation of
performance information for service providers, little is known about whether prior beliefs …

The value of being nonprofit: A new look at Hansmann's contract failure theory

C Silvia, C Child, E Witesman - Nonprofit and Voluntary …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In his theory about the role of nonprofit enterprise, Henry Hansmann suggested that
nonprofit status provides important information to consumers in low-information …

Does the profit motive matter? COVID-19 prevention and management in Ontario long-term-care homes

K Pue, D Westlake, A Jansen - Canadian Public Policy, 2021 - utpjournals.press
We introduce evidence that for-profit long-term-care providers are associated with less
successful outcomes in coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak management. We introduce two …