Nonprofit organizations have become an important part of the U.S. economy, but Information Systems (IS) research in the nonprofit context has been limited so far. In this paper we argue that the nonprofit sector presents a unique context for IS research and call for more research efforts at this new frontier. In particular, we discuss the differences between nonprofit, private, and public conte...

3 3 AS S OCIE T Y REL IES more on nonprofit organizations to p r ovide critical services, advocate for public policy, and stimulate innovation, leaders in the nonprofit sector share common concerns: how to make better use of limited resources in the face of growing need; how to increase the accountability of nonprofits to donors and regulators; and how to stay the course and reach established g...

Robert Kaplan's Balanced Scorecard has played an important and welcome role in the nonprofit world as nonprofit organizations have struggled to measure their performance. Many nonprofit organizations have taken both general inspiration and specific operational guidance from the ideas advanced in this important work. Their pioneering efforts to apply these concepts to their own particular settin...

Nonprofit organizations are confronted with a wide range of operational and environmental obstacles. Even though this sector has constructed creative and forward thinking initiatives, it remains a struggle to maintain their unique character and role in society (Salamon, 1999). To stay competitive, nonprofit organizations must aggressively assess their current capacity to deliver needed services...

Economic theories of Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs) have modified standard economic assumptions to explain altruism and nonprofit entrepreneurship but have neglected their dependence on leadership due to the traditional reluctance of economists to consider phenomena associated with preference change. The relevance of Hermalin’s (1998) model of leadership by example and Casson’s (1991) theory of...