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call for papers: nonprofit management for social change

ASPA's Section on Nonprofit Management has issued a call for papers for a symposium to explore how nonprofit and philanthropic research and practice might embrace its interdisciplinarity by developing theories and methodological approaches to challenge traditional ways of understanding and address wicked problems facing communities today. We invite you to submit original manuscripts on methodological approaches to nonprofit and philanthropic studies that embrace interdisciplinarity in a number of ways. Please see the attached for more details.

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Municipal Performance Measurement and Management in Practice: Which Factors Matter?

EMANUELE PADOVANI, ANA YETANO and REBECCA LEVY ORELLI
PAQ, Vol. 34 No. 4, (2010)

Performance management systems (PMSs) are being increasingly implemented in public sector organizations, although it is usually argued that a gap exists between the intended and the actual results. The purpose of this paper is to understand the factors that affect the use and implementation of PMSs in municipalities and how these drivers could influence their effectiveness. A multiple case study approach is used with extensive document analysis and direct interviews in four municipalities (two in Spain and two in Italy) that have implemented effective PMSs. Findings provide evidence of the factors that play a role in the implementation of these systems. In particular, time related concepts–duration, paths, windows of opportunity, cycles, causal mechanisms, and multiple perspectives–help to understand the time related factors which have a positive impact on final configuration of PMS.

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