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Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Guillaume Plaisance
Sciences Po Bordeaux
2
Maayan Davidovitz
University of Haifa
3
ChangYeon Park
Kyung Hee University
4
Le Diem Quynh Pham
The University of Queensland
5
Senbeto Dagnachew Leta
Hong Kong Metropolitan University
6
Yuchen Zhao
Nankai University
7
Leila Daddoust
Professional Engineers Ontario
8
Fangda Ding
University of Hong Kong
9
Megan LePere‐Schloop
The Ohio State University
10
Ágnes Kövér
Eötvös Loránd University

Rising Stars Papers

1
How do Tourism Stakeholders Co-Create Destination Images with Photos on Social Media?
Journal of Travel Research|2024
17 cit.
2
Residents' perceived social sustainability of food tourism events
Tourism Management Perspectives|2024
7 cit.
3
Vulnerability in frontline public service: potential threats and implications for policy implementation
Public Management Review|2024
7 cit.
4
Agentic leaders: School principals as street-level managers
Management in Education|2024
6 cit.
5
A cross-cultural perspective of backpacker motivation and sustainable behavior
Tourism Management Perspectives|2024
5 cit.
6
From hype to reality: Unveiling consumer resistance to NFTs through a hybrid SEM-ANN approach
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications|2025
5 cit.
7
Lack of Gender Representation in Academia: The Experiences of Female STEM Students
The American Review of Public Administration|2024
4 cit.
8
Interdisciplinary knowledge integration in public affairs scholarship: An empirical analysis of the contributions of public administration, policy sciences, and nonprofit studies
Journal of Public Affairs Education|2024
3 cit.
9
Artificial Intelligence (<scp>AI</scp>) in the Context of Nonprofits and Philanthropy: Suspicion and Hope for Researchers and Organizations
Journal of Philanthropy|2025
2 cit.
10
Social and environmental commitments in the voluntary sector: a study of organizational social responsibility in French nonprofit organizations
Society and Business Review|2025
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Rachel Pateman
Stockholm Environment Institute
2
Jenny Harlock
University of Bath
3
Katharina Obuch
University of Münster
4
Holly Overton
University of South Carolina Sumter
5
Caitlin McMullin
Roskilde University
6
Nathan Eva
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
7
Theresa Vu
Unknown
8
Dyana P. Mason
University of Oregon
9
C. Jane Queenan
Heriot-Watt University
10
Trang Hoang
Deakin University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
An Inconvenient Truth: A Comprehensive Examination of the Added Value (or Lack Thereof) of Leadership Measures
Journal of Management Studies|2024
46 cit.
2
Digital platforms and entrepreneurial support: a field experiment in online mentoring
Small Business Economics|2022
36 cit.
3
Citizen Science: Pathways to Impact and why Participant Diversity Matters
Citizen Science Theory and Practice|2023
35 cit.
4
“We're not there to lead”: Professional roles and responsibilities in “citizen‐led” co‐production
Public Administration Review|2023
30 cit.
5
Conscience-driven corporate social advocacy: analyzing moral conviction and perceived motives as predictors of organization-public relationships
Corporate Communications An International Journal|2022
25 cit.
6
Motivations for supporting corporate social advocacy: applying the SIMCA model
Journal of Communication Management|2022
24 cit.
7
Individual, Group, and Collective Co-production: The Role of Public Value Conceptions in Shaping Co-production Practices
Administration & Society|2022
24 cit.
8
Expectations versus reality: the sustainability of co-production approaches over time
Public Management Review|2023
19 cit.
9
Developing oneself to serve others? Servant leadership practices of mindfulness-trained leaders
Journal of Business Research|2024
17 cit.
10
Identifying Frames of the COVID-19 Infodemic: Thematic Analysis of Misinformation Stories Across Media
JMIR Infodemiology|2022
16 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Seok‐Woo Kwon
University of Calgary
2
Mark Snyder
University of Minnesota System
3
Sanjay K. Pandey
University of Kansas
4
Melissa M. Stone
University of Minnesota
5
Per Lægreid
University of Bergen
6
Brooks C. Holtom
Georgetown University
7
Roy Suddaby
University of Alberta
8
Helmut K. Anheier
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
9
Thomas B. Lawrence
University of Oxford
10
Lynne G. Zucker
National Bureau of Economic Research

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Social Capital: Prospects for a New Concept
Academy of Management Review|2002
7.9k cit.
2
Production of trust: Institutional sources of economic structure, 1840–1920.
Research in Organizational Behavior|1986
3.5k cit.
3
Self-monitoring of expressive behavior.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|1974
3.4k cit.
4
Survey response rate levels and trends in organizational research
Human Relations|2008
3.4k cit.
5
Social Capital: Prospects for a New Concept
Academy of Management Review|2002
3.1k cit.
6
The Role of Institutionalization in Cultural Persistence
American Sociological Review|1977
3k cit.
7
Institutional Sources of Change in the Formal Structure of Organizations: The Diffusion of Civil Service Reform, 1880-1935
Administrative Science Quarterly|1983
2.9k cit.
8
From the Editors: What Grounded Theory is Not
Academy of Management Journal|2006
2.8k cit.
9
THEORIZING CHANGE: THE ROLE OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF INSTITUTIONALIZED FIELDS.
Academy of Management Journal|2002
2.8k cit.
10
Institutional Theories of Organization
Annual Review of Sociology|1987
2.5k cit.

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