Katherine R Cooper
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3529439 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Katherine R Cooper |
| PRENOMES | Katherine R |
| SOBRENOME | Cooper |
| ASSINATURA | COOPER K R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | DePaul University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5161-1491 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Students as (Intergenerational) Partners
Relationships in the students as partners (SaP) movement in higher education have been described as intergenerational, because students, staff, and faculty of various ages work collaboratively on assessing teaching and learning practices, co-designing curriculum, and conducting educational research. However, few studies have investigated age relations in the SaP movement. Drawing on the concept of the chronosystem, which brings attention to vario…
Age relations in student, staff, and faculty partnerships
Population aging and the promotion of lifelong learning in higher education are changing student demographics. The result is more older learners in post-secondary classrooms and extracurricular programming. To better understand age diversity in extracurricular programming, this study examined age-relations in the Student as Partners [SaP] movement in higher education. From a partnered approach aligned with SaP principles, we used a critical groun…
Navigating Multiple Identities for Positive Change Through Organizational Listening
Organizational listening is critical in times of change, especially for organizations that must meet diverse stakeholder interests. Organizations’ views on who they are—whether they are altruistic or self-oriented entities—may shape organizational listening practices in meaningful ways. To explore the undertheorized topic of organizational listening, we conducted a mixed-method sequential explanatory study. Drawing on survey and interview data fr…
Hybrid stakeholders and processes in social impact organizing
All actors engage in hybrid organizing. Grounded in constitutive approaches, this article reorients attention to hybridity by examining how actors combine multiple, often competing, constitutive elements in social impact organizing. Building on recent developments in communication research that challenge long-standing assumptions about organizing—and increased scholarly attention to social impact—we argue that hybrid stakeholders and hybrid proce…
Transparency and its alternatives in collective communication design
Weathering the Storm
Are We All in This Together? Examining Nonprofits’ Perceptions of Governmental Actors in the Management of the U.S. Refugee Crisis
U.S. federal policy has created, at best, a gap and, at worst, a hostile environment for nonprofits serving refugees. We rely on frameworks of nonprofit-government relationships (institutional voids, structural holes, instrumental/expressive support) to explore government-nonprofit interactions in the refugee domain, and their impact on 34 refugee-serving nonprofits in the U.S. Findings indicate limited expressive and instrumental support for non…
Network Effectiveness in Context
Increasingly, scholars and practitioners are interested in evaluating the effectiveness of interorganizational networks. We use a configuration approach to study network effectiveness. This research is a mixed-method study of 26 education networks in the United States. We measure network effectiveness by comparing 4th-grade literacy, 8th-grade literacy, and high-school graduation rates. We compare these scores with all school districts in the sta…
Reconsidering communication visibility in politically restrictive contexts
Increasing evidence reveals that social media visibility produces paradoxes in which actors simultaneously confront contradictory, even mutually exclusive, conditions. Yet limited research has explored how actors perceive these paradoxes and manage resulting tensions in a politically repressive context. Ubiquitous government oversight, information control, and Internet censorship may uniquely complicate paradoxes of visibility in non-Western envi…
Corporate social responsibility in emerging social issues
Purpose CSR reporting is an institutionalized practice. However, institutionalization has been primarily examined in the context of limited social issues and largely restricted to the presence of CSR communication. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a framework to explore how institutional and organizational factors shape CSR programming in response to an emerging social issue: the global refugee crisis. Design/methodology/approach The aut…
Inside, Outside, or Constituting Community
Religious congregations are prominent in American life as both gatherings of religious people and as community resource. We explore how congregations communicate these multiple identities through qualitative content analysis of clergy interviews and congregational websites. Findings suggest that congregations emphasize religiosity even as they articulate community service and highlight congregations as outside, inside, and constituting community.…
Multiple Identities in Faith-based Organizations
Research suggests that organizations tend to collaborate with others that share similar ascribed status, but focuses less on the role of value homophily. To advance a fuller understanding of how organizations select partners, this study examines the roles of—and relationship between—status and value homophily in interorganizational collaboration (IOC). Specifically, it examines the influence of value homophily (i.e., similar service, staff, and o…
Networks for Social Impact
Networks for Social Impact is a broad review of how nonprofits, businesses, and governments work together to tackle social problems. The book takes a systems approach to explain how networks make a social impact, and when they are unlikely to do so. It argues that network design and management is not a one-size-fits-all formula. Instead, the type of social issue, the mechanism for social impact, environment, and resources available each determine…
Do U.S. Faith-Based Social Service Organizations Resist Collaboration? Examining the Role of Religiosity and Operational Capacity in Interorganizational Partnerships
Although nonprofit collaboration is commonplace, recent research suggests that faith-based organizations (FBOs) are less likely to collaborate than other nonprofits. This study builds on prior FBO, collaboration, and nonprofit capacity research to examine the influence of religiosity and operational capacity on FBOs’ within- and cross-sector partnerships. Findings from a survey with 197 FBOs across the United States reveal a complex picture of ho…
Networks for Social Impact
Fashion and Freedom
Nonprofit participation in collective impact
Collective impact represents an increasingly common approach to cross-sector collaboration that relies upon coordinated efforts and shared measurement, yet questions remain as to the role of nonprofits in these partnerships. This case study explores nonprofit participation across two collective impact sites. Findings suggest that nonprofit leaders participate, but the conditions of collective impact partnerships impact their participation. Variat…
Mixing Methods in Organizational Communication Research
In this review, we examine current practices in mixing methods in communication research. We examined 209 mixed-method organizational communication articles published between 1994 and 2014. Our analysis revealed four trends: (1) the dominance of single-paradigm, interpretive studies; (2) the preponderance of triangulation, complementarity, and development as purposes for mixing methods; (3) varied combinations of methods; and (4) a lack of mixed …
Policy Brief
Although nonprofit organizations are expected to engage in continuous evaluation, its effectiveness is hampered by limited resources and competing and untested instruments. This paper makes the case for the creation and use of more robust measures in nonprofit evaluation. Specifically, we argue for the involvement of nonprofits in the development of reliable and valid instruments that can be used to benchmark nonprofit organizations against one a…
My Cruel Conscience with Sharpned Knife’
In 1560, Anne Vaughan Lock, a member of John Calvin’s Genevan exile community, wrote the first sonnet sequence to be published in English. Lock’s Meditation of a Penitent Sinner may seem to have little in common with Jacob’s Well, a fifteenth-century sapience manual; however, this article examines surprising similarities in their respective discussions of the penitent self and its access to a cleansed conscience. Jacob’s Well attempts to emphasiz…
Nonprofit participation in collective impact
Collective impact represents an increasingly common approach to cross-sector collaboration that relies upon coordinated efforts and shared measurement, yet questions remain as to the role of nonprofits in these partnerships. This case study explores nonprofit participation across two collective impact sites. Findings suggest that nonprofit leaders participate, but the conditions of collective impact partnerships impact their participation. Variat…
Are We All in This Together? Examining Nonprofits’ Perceptions of Governmental Actors in the Management of the U.S. Refugee Crisis
U.S. federal policy has created, at best, a gap and, at worst, a hostile environment for nonprofits serving refugees. We rely on frameworks of nonprofit-government relationships (institutional voids, structural holes, instrumental/expressive support) to explore government-nonprofit interactions in the refugee domain, and their impact on 34 refugee-serving nonprofits in the U.S. Findings indicate limited expressive and instrumental support for non…
My Cruel Conscience with Sharpned Knife’
In 1560, Anne Vaughan Lock, a member of John Calvin’s Genevan exile community, wrote the first sonnet sequence to be published in English. Lock’s Meditation of a Penitent Sinner may seem to have little in common with Jacob’s Well, a fifteenth-century sapience manual; however, this article examines surprising similarities in their respective discussions of the penitent self and its access to a cleansed conscience. Jacob’s Well attempts to emphasiz…
Policy Brief
Although nonprofit organizations are expected to engage in continuous evaluation, its effectiveness is hampered by limited resources and competing and untested instruments. This paper makes the case for the creation and use of more robust measures in nonprofit evaluation. Specifically, we argue for the involvement of nonprofits in the development of reliable and valid instruments that can be used to benchmark nonprofit organizations against one a…
Mixing Methods in Organizational Communication Research
In this review, we examine current practices in mixing methods in communication research. We examined 209 mixed-method organizational communication articles published between 1994 and 2014. Our analysis revealed four trends: (1) the dominance of single-paradigm, interpretive studies; (2) the preponderance of triangulation, complementarity, and development as purposes for mixing methods; (3) varied combinations of methods; and (4) a lack of mixed …
Fashion and Freedom
Nonprofit participation in collective impact
Collective impact represents an increasingly common approach to cross-sector collaboration that relies upon coordinated efforts and shared measurement, yet questions remain as to the role of nonprofits in these partnerships. This case study explores nonprofit participation across two collective impact sites. Findings suggest that nonprofit leaders participate, but the conditions of collective impact partnerships impact their participation. Variat…
Networks for Social Impact
Networks for Social Impact is a broad review of how nonprofits, businesses, and governments work together to tackle social problems. The book takes a systems approach to explain how networks make a social impact, and when they are unlikely to do so. It argues that network design and management is not a one-size-fits-all formula. Instead, the type of social issue, the mechanism for social impact, environment, and resources available each determine…
Do U.S. Faith-Based Social Service Organizations Resist Collaboration? Examining the Role of Religiosity and Operational Capacity in Interorganizational Partnerships
Although nonprofit collaboration is commonplace, recent research suggests that faith-based organizations (FBOs) are less likely to collaborate than other nonprofits. This study builds on prior FBO, collaboration, and nonprofit capacity research to examine the influence of religiosity and operational capacity on FBOs’ within- and cross-sector partnerships. Findings from a survey with 197 FBOs across the United States reveal a complex picture of ho…
Networks for Social Impact
Reconsidering communication visibility in politically restrictive contexts
Increasing evidence reveals that social media visibility produces paradoxes in which actors simultaneously confront contradictory, even mutually exclusive, conditions. Yet limited research has explored how actors perceive these paradoxes and manage resulting tensions in a politically repressive context. Ubiquitous government oversight, information control, and Internet censorship may uniquely complicate paradoxes of visibility in non-Western envi…
Corporate social responsibility in emerging social issues
Purpose CSR reporting is an institutionalized practice. However, institutionalization has been primarily examined in the context of limited social issues and largely restricted to the presence of CSR communication. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a framework to explore how institutional and organizational factors shape CSR programming in response to an emerging social issue: the global refugee crisis. Design/methodology/approach The aut…
Inside, Outside, or Constituting Community
Religious congregations are prominent in American life as both gatherings of religious people and as community resource. We explore how congregations communicate these multiple identities through qualitative content analysis of clergy interviews and congregational websites. Findings suggest that congregations emphasize religiosity even as they articulate community service and highlight congregations as outside, inside, and constituting community.…
Multiple Identities in Faith-based Organizations
Research suggests that organizations tend to collaborate with others that share similar ascribed status, but focuses less on the role of value homophily. To advance a fuller understanding of how organizations select partners, this study examines the roles of—and relationship between—status and value homophily in interorganizational collaboration (IOC). Specifically, it examines the influence of value homophily (i.e., similar service, staff, and o…
Network Effectiveness in Context
Increasingly, scholars and practitioners are interested in evaluating the effectiveness of interorganizational networks. We use a configuration approach to study network effectiveness. This research is a mixed-method study of 26 education networks in the United States. We measure network effectiveness by comparing 4th-grade literacy, 8th-grade literacy, and high-school graduation rates. We compare these scores with all school districts in the sta…
Weathering the Storm
Are We All in This Together? Examining Nonprofits’ Perceptions of Governmental Actors in the Management of the U.S. Refugee Crisis
U.S. federal policy has created, at best, a gap and, at worst, a hostile environment for nonprofits serving refugees. We rely on frameworks of nonprofit-government relationships (institutional voids, structural holes, instrumental/expressive support) to explore government-nonprofit interactions in the refugee domain, and their impact on 34 refugee-serving nonprofits in the U.S. Findings indicate limited expressive and instrumental support for non…
Age relations in student, staff, and faculty partnerships
Population aging and the promotion of lifelong learning in higher education are changing student demographics. The result is more older learners in post-secondary classrooms and extracurricular programming. To better understand age diversity in extracurricular programming, this study examined age-relations in the Student as Partners [SaP] movement in higher education. From a partnered approach aligned with SaP principles, we used a critical groun…
Navigating Multiple Identities for Positive Change Through Organizational Listening
Organizational listening is critical in times of change, especially for organizations that must meet diverse stakeholder interests. Organizations’ views on who they are—whether they are altruistic or self-oriented entities—may shape organizational listening practices in meaningful ways. To explore the undertheorized topic of organizational listening, we conducted a mixed-method sequential explanatory study. Drawing on survey and interview data fr…
Hybrid stakeholders and processes in social impact organizing
All actors engage in hybrid organizing. Grounded in constitutive approaches, this article reorients attention to hybridity by examining how actors combine multiple, often competing, constitutive elements in social impact organizing. Building on recent developments in communication research that challenge long-standing assumptions about organizing—and increased scholarly attention to social impact—we argue that hybrid stakeholders and hybrid proce…
Transparency and its alternatives in collective communication design
Students as (Intergenerational) Partners
Relationships in the students as partners (SaP) movement in higher education have been described as intergenerational, because students, staff, and faculty of various ages work collaboratively on assessing teaching and learning practices, co-designing curriculum, and conducting educational research. However, few studies have investigated age relations in the SaP movement. Drawing on the concept of the chronosystem, which brings attention to vario…
Political science (14 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Public relations (10 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Business (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Religion, Society, and Development (5 obras)