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…]
November 16, 2009
by John C. Ronquillo
This week is going to be action-filled in the best possible way…another academic conference! From November 18 to 21 several of the Third Sector Network’s contributors will be in Cleveland for the 39th Annual Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) Conference. I am very much looking forward to the conference because… [Read more…]
November 16, 2009
by Erica Coslor
Hello everyone, thanks for joining us. I’m Erica Coslor and I’m currently finishing up my doctoral dissertation in Sociology at the University of Chicago. I had the pleasure of meeting my co-bloggers back in June when we took part in a paper writing workshop at UTexas, Austin. In the company of these fine nonprofit researchers,… [Read more…]
November 10, 2009
by Jasmine McGinnis
Welcome to my first official blog post! My name is Jasmine McGinnis and I am a second year Ph.D. student in a joint public policy program through the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and the Ivan Allen College of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. I have a rather… [Read more…]
November 9, 2009
by John C. Ronquillo
The month we spent in residence as summer fellows at the RGK Center at the University of Texas at Austin was enlightening and transformational, but we’re all in agreement that we have much unfinished business to address. This blog, we hope, will allow us to continue the discussion. We are all in agreement that the… [Read more…]
John C. Ronquillo
Sondra Barringer
Jasmine McGinnis
Erica Coslor
January 18, 2010
by Sondra Barringer
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