Third Sector and Performance

This topical special issue brings together a set of complementary papers that present and examine research findings on the issue of performance in the Third Sector from a variety of theoretical and practical viewpoints. It also identifies topics for future research. It builds on the work presented in a previous IJPPM special issue in 2010 on a similar topic (Manville and Greatbanks, 2010) in order to capture significant additional research that has been more recently conducted. The call for papers for this special issue was motivated by discussions from an “Operations Management in the Third Sector” conference held at Leeds University Business School last year (20th March 2013) and put forward some key questions on Third Sector and performance. A range of strong publications which address some of these questions from an international perspective, and which are summarised below, have been selected for publication in this special issue.