The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance

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Impact Metrics for Social Innovation: Barriers or Bridges to Radical Change? (2012, background): “However, the current debate in the social sector around the measurement of social innovation outcomes and impacts mainly reflects the perspective of private social finance that is attempting to be more strategic about its capital allocation (Ebrahim and Rangan 2010).”
Intellectual capital and financial performance in social cooperative enterprises (2018, background): “The assessment of mission-based performance has to consider the corporate inputs (tangible and intangible) used to support activities or processes for the production of goods or supply of services (Ebrahim and Rangan, 2010).”
Excusing Selfishness in Charitable Giving (2015, result): “In a field experiment, Gneezy et al. (2014) confirm that charitable giving significantly increases in response to such assurance that donations will not be used towards overhead costs, and that this increase is even larger than a comparable matching grant or framing of this initial donation as “seed”
Measuring Value Creation in Social Enterprises (2015, methodology): “His work is based on logic models that have been widely used to better understand the relationship between program inputs and outcomes, and also to reveal the mechanisms of change involved in moving from inputs to desired results (Ebrahim & Rangan, 2010).”