The unequal landscape of civic opportunity in America

M de Vries, JY Kim, H Han - Nature Human Behaviour, 2024 - nature.com
The hollowing of civil society has threatened effective implementation of scientific solutions
to pressing public challenges—which often depend on cultivating pro-social orientations …

From iron cage to glass house: Repurposing of bureaucratic management and the turn to openness

C Brandtner, WW Powell, A Horvath - Organization Studies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Although many contemporary organizations face institutional pressures to embrace open
organizing principles, some defer or decline the call. We examine how existing bureaucratic …

Understanding location and density: A spatial analysis of Cuyahoga County Ohio's nonprofit sector

DJ Mayer - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Theories of density dependence emphasize the role of competition and legitimation in
organizational life. However, agglomerative configurations and ecological processes vary …

Spatial Patterns of Nonprofit Founding: Toward a Local Ecology

DJ Mayer - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Nonprofit organizations are vital to the implementation of social policy and provide myriad
benefits to those nearby, yet few studies consider founding patterns in small areas …

Connecting founding and dissolution: A demographic study of the US nonprofit sector

DJ Mayer - Public Administration Review, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite a rich literature on nonprofit density, the founding and dissolution of nonprofit
organizations remains poorly understood. This study explores the founding and dissolution …

Teaching Spatial Data Analysis: A Case Study with Recommendations

DJ Mayer, RL Fischer - Nonprofit Policy Forum, 2024 - degruyter.com
Learning from data is a valuable skill for nonprofit professionals and researchers. Often, data
have a spatial component, and data relevant to the nonprofit sector are no exception …