Title
Publicity vs. impact in nonprofit disclosures and donor preferences: a sequential game with one nonprofit organization and N donors.
Abstract
Charitable giving is one of the essential tasks of a properly functioning civil society. This task is greatly complicated by the lack of organizational transparency and by the information asymmetries that often exist between organizations and donors in the market for charitable donations. The disclosure of financial, performance, donor-relations, and fundraising-related data is thus an important tool for nonprofit organizations attempting to attract greater donations while boosting accountability and public trust. There are, however, varying payoffs associated with such disclosure depending on the nature of donor preferences and the relative openness and effectiveness of competing organizations. To help understand the interplay between nonprofit organizational disclosures and individual donations, we present a novel game-theoretic model of disclosure–donation interactions that incorporates the predominant forms of both donor preferences and “value-relevant” information.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/s10479-011-0967-3
Annals OR
Keywords
DocType
Volume
homeland security,information asymmetry,game theory,organizational communication,civil society,relational data
Journal
221
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1572-9338
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.61
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jun Zhuang132630.54
Gregory D. Saxton21318.97
Han Wu32511.96