A good deal of my dissertation interests and current research surrounds understanding the connection between foundation governance and grantmaking. Like Sondra, this has led me to a number of organizational or governance theories that would lead us to hypothesize about the connection between the board members of a foundation (or any funder) and their eventual… [Read more…]
January 18, 2010 by Sondra Barringer
It has occurred to me in the course of revising a work in progress that in the general literature on organizations there is surprisingly little discussion of sector differences or governance differences as mediating or conditioning the impacts of some of our fundamental theories. Neoinstitutionalism, resource dependency and population ecology are just some theories or… [Read more…]
January 15, 2010 by Sondra Barringer
Hello everyone, welcome to our venture into the blogging world. My name is Sondra Barringer and I am currently a fourth year student in the Sociology Department at the University of Arizona, working on my doctoral dissertation. My fellow bloggers and I had the pleasure of meeting at the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community… [Read more…]
January 8, 2010 by John C. Ronquillo
Hi all. Welcome to our new online venture. As you can expect, with all of us being PhD students, we have quite a bit on our plates and updates are surely forthcoming. My name is John Ronquillo and I am in my third year at the University of Georgia where I’m a doctoral candidate in… [Read more…]
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January 21, 2010 by Jasmine McGinnis
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