Designed to help both graduate students and start-up researchers with their own case study
research, this book presents 21 individual applications of the case study method together …

Rural America is facing a plethora of problems related to poverty, crime, health, and
education. Nonprofit organizations serve a vital role in rural communities by providing …

Although'grassroots' conjures up images of independent citizen organizing, much mass
participation today is sponsored by elite consultants working for corporations and powerful …

In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of a small fundamentalist church in Florida, announced
plans to burn two hundred Qur'ans on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Though …

Numerous studies indicate that civil society organizations create cultural change by
deploying mainstream messages that resonate with prevailing discursive themes. Yet these …

Success and failure of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) have been prominent themes in the
nonprofit community for more than 30 years. However, since there is no common …

Despite the ever-increasing footprint of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the world's
emerging economies, the role of corporate social responsibility in MNEs' emerging economy …

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 …

The financial antecedents of nonprofit dissolution have not been well studied, although there
is growing scholarly attention devoted to the dissolution of nonprofit organizations. Using …

Legitimacy is widely invoked as a condition, cause, and outcome of other social
phenomena, yet measuring legitimacy is a persistent challenge. In this article, I synthesize …