Using Charity Performance Metrics as an Excuse Not to Give

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Exley, Christine L.
• 署名单位: Harvard University
• 刊物名称: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-1909
• DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2018.3268
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 553-563
• 关键词: Charitable giving; prosocial behavior; altruism; Excuses; Self-serving biases

摘要

There is an increasing pressure to give more wisely and effectively. There is, relatedly, an increasing focus on charity performance metrics. Through a series of experiments, this paper provides a caution to such a focus. Although information on charity performance metrics may facilitate more effective giving, it may also facilitate the development of excuses not to give. Managers of nonprofit organizations should carefully assess this tension when determining whether and how to provide information on their performance metrics.