Mary Tschirhart
Biographic Data
| ID | 1176563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Tschirhart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Tschirhart |
| SIGNATURE | TSCHIRHART M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Nonprofit Membership Associations
Organizational Response to Changing Demands
The integration of resource dependence theory and a network perspective results in a parsimonious “strategic response model” for the organizational responses of exit, voice, loyalty, and adjustment. Four cases illustrate the model's application to nonprofit organizations by focusing on relations with a government aid agency that switched funding priorities. The model helps explain why networks of recipients of funding may change over time and pre…
The paradox of inclusion and exclusion in membership associations
We use interviews and a focus group with leaders of a sample of nonprofit professional and trade membership associations based in the United States to understand what the leaders recognize to be their membership association’s diversity challenges and initiatives. We identify incentives, identity and power challenges as fundamental influences on the diversity of potential and existing members. Our analysis reveals a paradox in which attempts to in…
Philanthropic Mobility and the Influence of Duration of Donor Residency on Donation Choices
Scholars have long been interested in what influences philanthropic behavior. However, little is known about the effects of length of residency on charitable gifts to local and non-local organizations. Using 2010 survey data from 470 older individuals, we examine whether donors’ geographic relocations influence philanthropic behavior and whether these moves are a bigger challenge for some types of nonprofits than others. We find variations in giv…
Managing Nonprofit Organizations
"Managing Nonprofit Organizations offers a comprehensive treatment of the key topics in nonprofit management for practitioners, professors, and students in both graduate and undergraduate courses. This groundbreaking volume serves as both text and handbook and includes supplemental online materials and additional cases. The authors Tschirhart and Bielefeld (two of the top scholars in nonprofit management) bring theory and practice together in a c…
Place, Time, and Philanthropy
America is a nation of movers, and this has implications for public and nonprofit managers who rely on donations and volunteers to increase the capacity of nonprofits and to strengthen local communities. This article explores the impact of time and place on philanthropic engagement, focusing on how three aspects of community—sense of belonging, social connections, and regional culture—are related to volunteering and giving to local organizations.…
Voluntary Regulation of NGOs and Nonprofits
How can nonprofit organizations and NGOs demonstrate accountability to stakeholders and show that they are using funds appropriately and delivering on their promises? Many nonprofit stakeholders, including funders and regulators, have few opportunities to observe nonprofit internal management and policies. Such information deficits make it difficult for 'principals' to differentiate credible nonprofits from less credible ones. This volume examine…
Examining Empirical Evidence on Diversity Effects
This article reviews the body of empirical research on work‐related consequences of human diversity and presents an agenda for future investigations. Ideally, a synthesis of research findings to inform managing‐for‐diversity efforts should enable managers to interpret events in their own administrative contexts. Our assessment of the diversity literature suggests that managers are using largely untested assumptions as a basis for diversity polici…
Inside a Swiss Army Knife
This study reviews the goals and achievements of AmeriCorps, the national service program championed by President Clinton and approved by Congress in 1993. We identify five AmeriCorps goals: satisfying unmet social needs, developing corps members, enhancing the civic ethic, reinvigorating lethargic bureaucracies, and bridging race and class. The evidence of AmeriCorps' effectiveness is not definitive. Self-reports from recipient programs, selecti…
The Determinants of NLRB Decision-Making Revisited
The authors develop a model of NLRB decision-making that, unlike the models employed in previous studies, distinguishes between decision-making in more important, complex cases and less important, simpler cases. Using a representative sample of Board decisions over 1957-86, they find that in deciding the minority (20%) of disputes that were particularly important or complex, Board members were influenced by their personal preferences and those of…
Public Information Campaigns as Policy Instruments
Considerable controversy surrounds public information campaigns: government-directed and sponsored efforts to communicate to large numbers of citizens in order to achieve a policy result, or what might be called government propaganda. We analyze the use of campaigns as policy instruments in three ways: (1) effectiveness in achieving substantive outcomes; (2) political benefits for public officials; and (3) consequences for democratic processes. O…
Postindustrial Environments and Organizational Effectiveness in Colleges and Universities
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKim S. CameronKim S. Cameron is professor of organizational behavior and human resource management in the School of Business Administration and professor of higher education in the School of Education and Mary Tschirhart is a doctoral candidate in the School of Business Administration at the University of Michigan.Mary TschirhartKim S. Cameron is professor of organizational behavior and human resource ma…
Public Information Campaigns as Policy Instruments
Considerable controversy surrounds public information campaigns: government-directed and sponsored efforts to communicate to large numbers of citizens in order to achieve a policy result, or what might be called government propaganda. We analyze the use of campaigns as policy instruments in three ways: (1) effectiveness in achieving substantive outcomes; (2) political benefits for public officials; and (3) consequences for democratic processes. O…
Inside a Swiss Army Knife
This study reviews the goals and achievements of AmeriCorps, the national service program championed by President Clinton and approved by Congress in 1993. We identify five AmeriCorps goals: satisfying unmet social needs, developing corps members, enhancing the civic ethic, reinvigorating lethargic bureaucracies, and bridging race and class. The evidence of AmeriCorps' effectiveness is not definitive. Self-reports from recipient programs, selecti…
The paradox of inclusion and exclusion in membership associations
We use interviews and a focus group with leaders of a sample of nonprofit professional and trade membership associations based in the United States to understand what the leaders recognize to be their membership association’s diversity challenges and initiatives. We identify incentives, identity and power challenges as fundamental influences on the diversity of potential and existing members. Our analysis reveals a paradox in which attempts to in…
Postindustrial Environments and Organizational Effectiveness in Colleges and Universities
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKim S. CameronKim S. Cameron is professor of organizational behavior and human resource management in the School of Business Administration and professor of higher education in the School of Education and Mary Tschirhart is a doctoral candidate in the School of Business Administration at the University of Michigan.Mary TschirhartKim S. Cameron is professor of organizational behavior and human resource ma…
Place, Time, and Philanthropy
America is a nation of movers, and this has implications for public and nonprofit managers who rely on donations and volunteers to increase the capacity of nonprofits and to strengthen local communities. This article explores the impact of time and place on philanthropic engagement, focusing on how three aspects of community—sense of belonging, social connections, and regional culture—are related to volunteering and giving to local organizations.…
The Determinants of NLRB Decision-Making Revisited
The authors develop a model of NLRB decision-making that, unlike the models employed in previous studies, distinguishes between decision-making in more important, complex cases and less important, simpler cases. Using a representative sample of Board decisions over 1957-86, they find that in deciding the minority (20%) of disputes that were particularly important or complex, Board members were influenced by their personal preferences and those of…
Postindustrial Environments and Organizational Effectiveness in Colleges and Universities
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKim S. CameronKim S. Cameron is professor of organizational behavior and human resource management in the School of Business Administration and professor of higher education in the School of Education and Mary Tschirhart is a doctoral candidate in the School of Business Administration at the University of Michigan.Mary TschirhartKim S. Cameron is professor of organizational behavior and human resource ma…
Public Information Campaigns as Policy Instruments
Considerable controversy surrounds public information campaigns: government-directed and sponsored efforts to communicate to large numbers of citizens in order to achieve a policy result, or what might be called government propaganda. We analyze the use of campaigns as policy instruments in three ways: (1) effectiveness in achieving substantive outcomes; (2) political benefits for public officials; and (3) consequences for democratic processes. O…
The Determinants of NLRB Decision-Making Revisited
The authors develop a model of NLRB decision-making that, unlike the models employed in previous studies, distinguishes between decision-making in more important, complex cases and less important, simpler cases. Using a representative sample of Board decisions over 1957-86, they find that in deciding the minority (20%) of disputes that were particularly important or complex, Board members were influenced by their personal preferences and those of…
Inside a Swiss Army Knife
This study reviews the goals and achievements of AmeriCorps, the national service program championed by President Clinton and approved by Congress in 1993. We identify five AmeriCorps goals: satisfying unmet social needs, developing corps members, enhancing the civic ethic, reinvigorating lethargic bureaucracies, and bridging race and class. The evidence of AmeriCorps' effectiveness is not definitive. Self-reports from recipient programs, selecti…
Examining Empirical Evidence on Diversity Effects
This article reviews the body of empirical research on work‐related consequences of human diversity and presents an agenda for future investigations. Ideally, a synthesis of research findings to inform managing‐for‐diversity efforts should enable managers to interpret events in their own administrative contexts. Our assessment of the diversity literature suggests that managers are using largely untested assumptions as a basis for diversity polici…
Voluntary Regulation of NGOs and Nonprofits
How can nonprofit organizations and NGOs demonstrate accountability to stakeholders and show that they are using funds appropriately and delivering on their promises? Many nonprofit stakeholders, including funders and regulators, have few opportunities to observe nonprofit internal management and policies. Such information deficits make it difficult for 'principals' to differentiate credible nonprofits from less credible ones. This volume examine…
Managing Nonprofit Organizations
"Managing Nonprofit Organizations offers a comprehensive treatment of the key topics in nonprofit management for practitioners, professors, and students in both graduate and undergraduate courses. This groundbreaking volume serves as both text and handbook and includes supplemental online materials and additional cases. The authors Tschirhart and Bielefeld (two of the top scholars in nonprofit management) bring theory and practice together in a c…
Place, Time, and Philanthropy
America is a nation of movers, and this has implications for public and nonprofit managers who rely on donations and volunteers to increase the capacity of nonprofits and to strengthen local communities. This article explores the impact of time and place on philanthropic engagement, focusing on how three aspects of community—sense of belonging, social connections, and regional culture—are related to volunteering and giving to local organizations.…
Philanthropic Mobility and the Influence of Duration of Donor Residency on Donation Choices
Scholars have long been interested in what influences philanthropic behavior. However, little is known about the effects of length of residency on charitable gifts to local and non-local organizations. Using 2010 survey data from 470 older individuals, we examine whether donors’ geographic relocations influence philanthropic behavior and whether these moves are a bigger challenge for some types of nonprofits than others. We find variations in giv…
The paradox of inclusion and exclusion in membership associations
We use interviews and a focus group with leaders of a sample of nonprofit professional and trade membership associations based in the United States to understand what the leaders recognize to be their membership association’s diversity challenges and initiatives. We identify incentives, identity and power challenges as fundamental influences on the diversity of potential and existing members. Our analysis reveals a paradox in which attempts to in…
Nonprofit Membership Associations
Organizational Response to Changing Demands
The integration of resource dependence theory and a network perspective results in a parsimonious “strategic response model” for the organizational responses of exit, voice, loyalty, and adjustment. Four cases illustrate the model's application to nonprofit organizations by focusing on relations with a government aid agency that switched funding priorities. The model helps explain why networks of recipients of funding may change over time and pre…
Political science (11 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (4 works) · Accountability (3 works)