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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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Making Performance Measurement Relevant? Administrators’ Attitudes and Structural Orientations

KAIFENG YANG
PAQ, Vol. 31 No. 3, (2007)

To make performance measurement (PEM) more relevant, researchers have proposed such solutions as citizen-driven PEM, linking PEM with political accountability, using PEM to facilitate double-loop policy learning, and measuring fairness. But will public administrators be receptive to the ideas? How do organizational contexts affect their attitudes? Based on survey data, this study finds a majority of the respondents are positive about citizen-driven PEM and measuring fairness, but skeptical about using PEM results for external accountability or double-loop policy learning. The impacts of procedural orientation, market orientation, and network orientation are examined.

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