Modeling Approaches and Metrics to Evaluate Nonprofit Operations

Gemma Berenguer ()
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Gemma Berenguer: Purdue University

Chapter 2 in Advances in Managing Humanitarian Operations, 2016, pp 9-31 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The Operations Research and Management Science (OR/MS) community is paying increasing attention to the analysis of nonprofit practices, which can significantly differ from for-profit ones. While profit is one of the most widely used performance metrics in for-profit settings, it is not appropriate for nonprofit operations. We start the chapter by suggesting a number of theoretical models that could represent nonprofit operations. Next, we present some strategies used by organizations to align the incentives and objectives of different decision makers participating in the same nonprofit operation. The bulk of the chapter is devoted to bringing to the attention of the humanitarian operations community different candidate metrics valid for measuring nonprofit performance. These metrics are not necessarily unique to nonprofit operations but are used by practitioners and scholars in a large variety of nonprofit situations.

Keywords: Nonprofit operations; Performance metrics; Modeling approaches; Managerial practices; Input metrics; Output metrics; Efficiency metrics; Costs; Equity; Equality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24418-1_2

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