The funding—Humanitarian supply chain interface

Burkart, Christian; Besiou, Maria; Wakolbinger, Tina

doi:10.1016/j.sorms.2016.10.003

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“…This research lies at the intersection of three streams of literature in humanitarian operations management: funding, transparency and crowdfunding. Burkart et al (2016) highlight that funding is an important research area in humanitarian operations management due to the shortfall in global donations for emergency response. Extant literature on funding examines strategies organizations can use to increase donations.…”

Section: Communicating Work: Funding Transparency and Crowdfundingmentioning

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Operational Transparency on Crowdfunding Platforms: Effect on Donations for Emergency Response

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Pedraza‐Martinez

2019

Production and Operations Management

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Online crowdfunding has emerged as a powerful tool to raise funds for emergency response. Crowdfunding campaigns can use two transparency tools to attract donors: updates and certification. Updates are additional messages that the organizer issues after launching the campaign and are a form of operational transparency when they communicate the campaign’s work to donors. Alternatively, certification is a form of conventional transparency that ensures the campaign truly benefits a charitable purpose. Using an econometric analysis, we investigate the effects of transparency on donations. We study the direction of causality and mechanisms behind work‐related updates by conducting an experiment. Results from the econometric analysis using over 100,000 campaigns benefiting victims of emergencies reveal that both updates and certification have positive effects on donations. Each additional work‐related word in an update (operational transparency) increases donations on average by $65 per month, while certification (conventional transparency) raises funds on average by $22 per month. Results from the experiment confirm the direction of causality; posting work‐related updates in crowdfunding campaigns increases donations. Two mechanisms explain this effect: donors’ enhanced perceptions of effort and perceptions of trust.

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Section: Communicating Work: Funding Transparency and Crowdfundingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Operational Transparency on Crowdfunding Platforms: Effect on Donations for Emergency Response

Mejía

Urrea

Pedraza‐Martinez

2019

Production and Operations Management

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“…eral researchers likeAzmat et al (2019b),Azmat et al (2018),Burkart et al (2016),Seuring and Gold (2012),Jahre et al (2007), we gathered relevant literature using topical key-word search query along with exploring the references of the key articles in order to develop the understanding of the current state of the field. Moreover, the grey literature, including organizational reports, websites, and newspaper articles, were also referred to where needed.…”

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Potential applications of unmanned ground and aerial vehicles to mitigate challenges of transport and logistics-related critical success factors in the humanitarian supply chain

Azmat

Kummer

2020

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The present decade has seen an upsurge in the research on the applications of autonomous vehicles and drones to present innovative and sustainable solutions for traditional transportation and logistical challenges. Similarly, in this study, we propose using autonomous cars and drones to resolve conventional logistics and transport challenges faced by international humanitarian organizations (IHOs) during a relief operation. We do so by identifying, shortlisting, and elaborating critical success factors or key transport and logistics challenges from the existing humanitarian literature and present a conceptual model to mitigate these challenges by integrating unmanned ground (UGVs) and aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the humanitarian supply chain. To understand how this novel idea of using UGVs and UAVs could help IHOs, we drafted three research questions, first focusing on the identification of existing challenges, second concentrating on remediation of these challenges, and the third to understand realization timeline for UGVs and UAVs. This lead to the development of a semi-structured, open-ended questionnaire to record the respondents' perspectives on the existing challenges and their potential solutions. We gathered data form, ten interviewees, with substantial experience in the humanitarian sector from six IHOs stationed in Pakistan and Austria. In light of the feedback for the second research question, we present a conceptual model of integrating UAVs and UGVs in the relief chain. The results of the study indicate that technological advancement in mobility withholds the potential to mitigate the existing challenges faced by IHOs. However, IHOs tend to be reluctant in adapting UGVs compared to UAVs. The results also indicate that the adaptation of these technologies is subject to their technical maturity, and there are no significant differences in opinions found between the IHOs from Pakistan and Austria.

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“…ζ is the representative donor's sensitivity to p . Previous empirical studies show that institutional donors are more sensitive to p than private donors (references in Burkart et al., ). Our model takes this aspect into account.…”

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“…Furthermore, the implications of funding on inventory management (Natarajan & Swaminathan, ), decisions concerning allocation of funds (Kunz, Reiner, & Gold, ), as well as trade‐offs between in‐kind versus cash donations (Ülkü, Bell & Wilson, ) were explored. Burkart, Besiou, and Wakolbinger () provide an overview of papers addressing the interface between fundraising and supply chain management and also highlight important research gaps. Few studies have attempted to explore fundraising collaboration despite the fact that joint fundraising appeals for disasters and emergencies have recently been well recognized in practice.…”

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Joint Fundraising Appeals: Allocation Rules and Conditions That Encourage Aid Agencies' Collaboration

Toyasaki

Wakolbinger

2018

Decision Sciences

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Collaborative fundraising mechanisms-known as joint fundraising appeals-have received increasing attention as innovative ways to reduce fundraising competition between aid agencies. While some aid agencies participate in joint fundraising activities, others consider that the disadvantages outweigh the benefits. Based on the analysis of two-stage sequential game theory models, the article identifies key factors that affect aid agencies' decisions about participation in a joint fundraising mode. Our analysis indicates that expected effects of the joint fundraising mode depend on aid agencies' efficiency levels. For efficient aid agencies, the joint mode functions as a buffer to prevent them from fierce competition. In the case of inefficient aid agencies, the competitive mode saves aid agencies from underinvestment in fundraising activities. We classify representative allocation rules currently applied in the humanitarian context into three types. Our analysis shows that these allocation rules only lead to beneficial allocations for limited circumstances. Following the analysis of the three representative allocation rules, the present work also analyzes aid agencies' negotiation-based allocation without predetermined allocation rules, using generalized Nash bargaining.

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The funding—Humanitarian supply chain interface

Cited by 68 publications

References 77 publications

Operational Transparency on Crowdfunding Platforms: Effect on Donations for Emergency Response

Operational Transparency on Crowdfunding Platforms: Effect on Donations for Emergency Response

Potential applications of unmanned ground and aerial vehicles to mitigate challenges of transport and logistics-related critical success factors in the humanitarian supply chain

Joint Fundraising Appeals: Allocation Rules and Conditions That Encourage Aid Agencies' Collaboration

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