Professor Beth Gazley has earned the Editor’s Prize for Best Scholarly Paper in Nonprofit Management & Leadership, Vol. 31 for her article, “What do we know about nonprofit collaboration? A systemic review of the literature.”
The study, which was conducted with Professor Chao Guo from the University of Pennsylvania, included a systemic literature review on the content of past empirical studies of nonprofit collaboration within and across the sectors, published between 1972 and 2015, and found four major themes. Those themes included diverse but “siloed” data; imbalance in research coverage; the dominance of “big four” organization theories; and limited improvement in research sophistication. It also found five specific research gaps which can help to inform collaboration research and practice by observing the value in using a broader scope of literature and methods to build knowledge in this area.
“This project involved a complicated methodology whose greater use I’ve been promoting in our field,” Gazley said. “It took five years of data collection and analysis before we even had a manuscript, so it’s great to see my peers recognize the level of effort that went into the study.”
Gazley will be recognized at the 51st Annual Conference of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) to be held Nov. 17-19 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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