PRACTICES IN HUMANITARIAN ORGANISATIONS

 

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN HUMANITARIAN ORGANISATIONS

 

Abstract

Purpose – 

We examine how design and implementation practices for supply chain performance management that have proven successful in commercial organisations apply to humanitarian organisations (HOs) to guide the process of designing and implementing performance management in humanitarian organisations.

Design/ 

methodology/approach – We identify from the literature ten successful practices regarding the design and implementation of supply chain performance management in commercial businesses. We apply these, using action research over a four-year period, at M_edecins sans Fronti_eres (MSF) Belgium and draw

conclusions from this.

Findings – 

We find that tools and techniques, such as workshops and technical sheets, are essential in designing and implementing supply chain performance measurement projects at HOs. Furthermore, making a link to an IT project is crucial when implementing performance measurement systems at HOs. Overall, our case study shows that performance management practices used in business can be applied and are relevant for humanitarian supply chains.

Originality/value –

 Previous research has argued that there are few empirical studies in the domain of performance management at humanitarian organisations. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first to provide a longitudinal understanding of the design and implementation of supply chain performance

measurement at HOs.

Keywords 

Empirical study, Performance measurement and management, Humanitarian supply chain, Performance management practices, Action research.   ..........READ HERE

Hella Abidi

FOM-ILD, Essen, The Netherlands

Sander de Leeuw

Department of Supply Chain Analytics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,

Amsterdam, The Netherlands and

Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK, and

Wout Dullaert

Department of Supply Chain Analytics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Journal of Humanitarian Logistics

and Supply Chain Management

Emerald Publishing Limited

2042-6747