Civic Life of Cities Lab

Publications from the Civic Life of Cities Research Team

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Serve or Conserve: Mission, Strategy, and Multi-Level Nonprofit Change During the Great Recession

Aaron Horvath, Christof Brandtner, Walter W. Powell

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Click and mortar: Organizations on the web

Walter W. Powell, Aaron Horvath, Christof Brandtner

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Internal and External Determinants of Formal Plans in the Nonprofit Sector

Hokyu Hwang and Patricia Bromley

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Decoupling Revisited: Common Pressures, Divergent Strategies in the U.S. Nonprofit Sector

Patricia Bromley, Hokyu Hwang, and Walter W. Powell

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Collaboration and Professionalization: The Contours of Public Sector Funding for Nonprofit Organizations

David F. Suárez

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Street Credentials and Management Backgrounds: Careers of Nonprofit Executives in an Evolving Sector

David Suárez

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The Rationalization of Charity: The Influences of Professionalism in the Nonprofit Sector

Hokyu Hwang and Walter W. Powell

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Civic Engagement and Nonprofit Lobbying in California, 1998-2003

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Social Service Mergers: Hope Services & Skills Center

Victoria Chang and Walter W. Powell

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Additional Work on the Nonprofit Sector, with scholars from Stanford PACS

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Institutional analysis in a digital era: Mechanisms and methods to understand emerging fields

Walter W. Powell, Achim Oberg, Valeska Korff, Carrie Oelberger, and Karina Kloos

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Interstitial Organizations as Conversational Bridges

Valeska Korff, Achim Oberg, and Walter W. Powell

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From Smoke and Mirrors to Walking the Talk: Characteristics and Consequences of Decoupling in the Contemporary World

Patricia Bromley and Walter W. Powell

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OUR WORK IN THE NEWS

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Nonprofit Goals, For-Profit Tactics

Alisha Green, Silicon Valley Business Journal

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When Nonprofits Act Like Businesses, Transparency Improves

Louise Lee, Insights by Stanford Business

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The Language of Nonprofits is Changing

Louise Lee, Insights by Stanford Business

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How Civic Organizations Are Helping to Fight COVID-19

Aaron Horvath and Jean Lin

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Related Reading

Publications from the Civic Life of Cities Research Team

Serve or Conserve: Mission, Strategy, and Multi-Level Nonprofit Change During the Great Recession

Click and mortar: Organizations on the web

Internal and External Determinants of Formal Plans in the Nonprofit Sector

Decoupling Revisited: Common Pressures, Divergent Strategies in the U.S. Nonprofit Sector

Collaboration and Professionalization: The Contours of Public Sector Funding for Nonprofit Organizations

Street Credentials and Management Backgrounds: Careers of Nonprofit Executives in an Evolving Sector

The Rationalization of Charity: The Influences of Professionalism in the Nonprofit Sector

Civic Engagement and Nonprofit Lobbying in California, 1998-2003

Social Service Mergers: Hope Services & Skills Center

Additional Work on the Nonprofit Sector, with scholars from Stanford PACS

Organizational Poisedness and the Transformation of Civic Order in Nineteenth-Century New York City

Governing the Crossroads: Interstitial Communities and the Fate of Nonprofit Evaluation

Institutional analysis in a digital era: Mechanisms and methods to understand emerging fields

Contributory or Disruptive: Do New Forms of Philanthropy Erode Democracy

Interstitial Organizations as Conversational Bridges

From Smoke and Mirrors to Walking the Talk: Characteristics and Consequences of Decoupling in the Contemporary World

OUR WORK IN THE NEWS

Nonprofit Goals, For-Profit Tactics

When Nonprofits Act Like Businesses, Transparency Improves

The Language of Nonprofits is Changing

How Civic Organizations Are Helping to Fight COVID-19