This article discusses the rise of an approach to philanthropic giving known as
philanthrocapitalism. I relate it to a new paradigm in management theory that has claimed …

Despite the nonprofit sector's significance in economic contribution, workforce, and social
impact, it faces unique innovation hurdles and is not well positioned for sustainability …

The theory of the nonprofit institutional form developed by Henry Hansmann emphasizes the
importance of organizational trustworthiness in a sector defined by hard-to-measure outputs …

Public scrutiny of the nonprofit sector often focuses on excessive overhead spending, seeing
it as an obstacle to mission fulfillment. Yet, there have been few prior studies on the impact …

Abstract Evaluation is a moral practice. With this in mind, we look to moral philosophy and
the theory of virtue ethics as a case study to identify instances where virtue ethics undergirds …

Nonprofits engaged in public service provision can receive funding from both donors and
governments. Much of the nonprofit performance theory suggests that donors are unlikely to …

Standard economic theories of nonprofits argue that donors largely cannot observe nonprofit
performance. Using market data from the US nonprofit housing sector, federal financial data …

For several decades, the aid effectiveness movement has called for more robust, informed
and independent impact evaluation of aid activities, but the prevalence and adoption of …

A growing chorus of critics have called upon transnational nongovernmental organizations
(TNGOs) from the Global North to “decolonize” their practices, to “shift the power” to the …

A defining assumption of the innovation literature is that the public sector suffers from an
innovation deficit relative to other organizational forms. To examine this empirically, we use …