The concept of legitimacy—ie, being regarded as “lawful, admissible, and justified”(Edwards
in NGO rights and responsibilities: a new deal for global governance, The Foreign Policy …

There is growing evidence suggesting that non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in lower-
middle-income countries and emerging economies are facing challenges about their …

Purpose This paper explores the communication of legitimacy in the annual reports of non-
governmental organizations (NGOs), focusing specifically on the function of images. The …

Nonprofit managers are influenced by managerial logics that guide their everyday
understandings, decisions, and behaviors. This article identifies, conceptualizes, and …

Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has made humanity contend with the negative footprint of
its activities in which social justice, ecological integrity and economic stability are …

Research on the determinants of foreign aid tends to focus on the relationship between
donor country priorities and recipient state characteristics, but donors also make decisions …

This article discusses the evolution of government-nonprofit relations at the regional level in
Russia against the background of national-level restrictions on NGOs. Russia recently also …

This article argues that current democracy promotion strategies relying on rights‐claiming
advocacy NGOs are falling short of their democratization goals, as authoritarian regimes are …

There are about 500 million small-scale farms in low-income countries on the planet.
Farmers have been slow to adopt a threefold set of sustainable agronomic practices known …

The context for NGOs in the Global South–delegitimising discourse, restrictive policies, and
decreasing international funding–leads to major concerns about the sustainability of …