Billie Sandberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4128266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Billie Sandberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Billie |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandberg |
| SIGNATURE | SANDBERG B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5376-4018 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Beyond “Psychic Income”: An Exploration of Interventions to Address Work-Life Imbalances, Burnout, and Precarity in Contemporary Nonprofit Work
Nonprofit scholars and practitioners alike adhere to a long-held assumption that nonprofit work is, and will remain, inherently meaningful work. The long-term marketization of the nonprofit sector coupled with the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic has undercut this narrative. Our research on meaningful nonprofit work indicates that while many nonprofit workers do find their work meaningful, pay, flexibility, and work/life balance are increasingl…
Re-envisioning the Role of “Big Data” in the Nonprofit Sector: A Data Feminist Perspective
Use of big data in the nonprofit sector is on the rise as a part of a trend toward “data-driven” management. While big data has its critics, few have addressed fundamental ontological and epistemological issues big data presents for the nonprofit sector. In this article, we address some of these issues including most prominently the notion that big data are value neutral and divorced from context. Drawing on data feminism, an intersectional femin…
The Dissonance of “Doing Good: Fostering Critical Pedagogy to Challenge the Selective Tradition of Nonprofit Management Education
Nonprofit management classrooms are filled with students who yearn to “do good” in the world and yet, in practice, they confront a dissonance between their vision of doing good and the realities of nonprofit work. This dissonance is in part created by contemporary nonprofit management education (NME) through the development and perpetuation of a selective historical tradition of the nonprofit sector which mythologizes the sector and its work. The…
Creating Meaningfulness in Public Service Work: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Public and Nonprofit Managers’ Experience of Work
Public service work and public-serving institutions are evolving by incorporating neoliberal modes of working more and more. Contemporary research oftentimes neglects to account for these changes in how we understand public service work, however. This article draws on the meaningfulness in work and public service motivation literature to explore how public service workers are making sense of their work and work environments to create meaningful w…
Symposium on Critical Perspectives on Nongovernmental Organizations and Action: Introduction
Toward a Care-Centered Approach for Nonprofit Management in a Neoliberal Era
Traditionally the nonprofit sector has played a dual role in American society, providing venues for both civic engagement and care for those who are unable to participate fully in either democratic governance or the marketplace. As the nonprofit sector becomes increasingly marketized, some scholars have developed “counter-discourses” that seek to reassert the civic role of nonprofits. These counter-discourses are vital to maintaining the sector’s…
Symposium on Critical Perspectives on Nongovernmental Organizations and Action, Part 2
Investigating the Marketization of the Nonprofit Sector: A Comparative Case Study of Two Nonprofit Organizations
It has been well documented in recent years that nonprofits are becoming increasingly marketized. What is less well understood from this body of research is the variation of marketization in the nonprofit sector and how it is made manifest in nonprofit organizations. This article aims to fill this gap in knowledge by recounting the results of a comparative case study of two nonprofits. We examine their marketization through a multifaceted theoret…
The Quantified Self and the Evolution of Neoliberal Self-Government: An Exploratory Qualitative Study
This article examines the “citizen side” of the performance and audit revolution through an exploration of individuals engaged in a “data-driven life.” Through an exploratory qualitative study of individuals’ video logs taken from the “Quantified Self” Web site, we examine how individuals are using information technology and Web 2.0 interfaces to generate data about themselves for themselves. We explore the questions, “Who are the subjects of gov…
Against the Cult(ure) of the Entrepreneur for the Nonprofit Sector
The increasing marketization of the nonprofit sector is well documented. Scholars have explored its effects on nonprofit management and discussed its potentially harmful implications, especially as regards the sector’s traditional roles as service provider and advocate, facilitator of democratic discourses, and preserver of civil society. However, this scholarship has not fully explored the implications of a central figure in the discourses of th…
Dangerous Government”: Info-Liberalism, Active Citizenship, and the Open Government Directive
There has been much debate about the change Barack Obama represents. This article considers this question by using Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality to explore the underlying governmental rationality of his administration’s policies and management practices. Obama’s governmentality is examined via the Open Government Directive, arguably the central initiative of the administration. The article concludes that this governmentality may be…
The Road to Market
Some scholars argue that the nonprofit sector is a venue in which citizens can both learn and exercise their civic duty. Others contend that the nonprofit sector has adopted the logic and values of the marketplace, imperiling its ability to effectively promote democratic values. Unlike these critiques, which describe the consequences of a marketized nonprofit service, this article examines how the discourses of the market are being extended in th…
Constructing Society’s Aide
This article offers a new framework for understanding the role that nonprofit organizations play in American life. Popular sentiment and contemporary nonprofit theory suggest that nonprofits hold a special purpose: They provide assistance when the typical functioning of the economic and political institutions fails. Drawing on the critical perspective afforded by genealogy and on Foucault’s writings on government and liberalism, this article prop…
The Quantified Self and the Evolution of Neoliberal Self-Government: An Exploratory Qualitative Study
This article examines the “citizen side” of the performance and audit revolution through an exploration of individuals engaged in a “data-driven life.” Through an exploratory qualitative study of individuals’ video logs taken from the “Quantified Self” Web site, we examine how individuals are using information technology and Web 2.0 interfaces to generate data about themselves for themselves. We explore the questions, “Who are the subjects of gov…
Toward a Care-Centered Approach for Nonprofit Management in a Neoliberal Era
Traditionally the nonprofit sector has played a dual role in American society, providing venues for both civic engagement and care for those who are unable to participate fully in either democratic governance or the marketplace. As the nonprofit sector becomes increasingly marketized, some scholars have developed “counter-discourses” that seek to reassert the civic role of nonprofits. These counter-discourses are vital to maintaining the sector’s…
Against the Cult(ure) of the Entrepreneur for the Nonprofit Sector
The increasing marketization of the nonprofit sector is well documented. Scholars have explored its effects on nonprofit management and discussed its potentially harmful implications, especially as regards the sector’s traditional roles as service provider and advocate, facilitator of democratic discourses, and preserver of civil society. However, this scholarship has not fully explored the implications of a central figure in the discourses of th…
Investigating the Marketization of the Nonprofit Sector: A Comparative Case Study of Two Nonprofit Organizations
It has been well documented in recent years that nonprofits are becoming increasingly marketized. What is less well understood from this body of research is the variation of marketization in the nonprofit sector and how it is made manifest in nonprofit organizations. This article aims to fill this gap in knowledge by recounting the results of a comparative case study of two nonprofits. We examine their marketization through a multifaceted theoret…
Creating Meaningfulness in Public Service Work: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Public and Nonprofit Managers’ Experience of Work
Public service work and public-serving institutions are evolving by incorporating neoliberal modes of working more and more. Contemporary research oftentimes neglects to account for these changes in how we understand public service work, however. This article draws on the meaningfulness in work and public service motivation literature to explore how public service workers are making sense of their work and work environments to create meaningful w…
The Road to Market
Some scholars argue that the nonprofit sector is a venue in which citizens can both learn and exercise their civic duty. Others contend that the nonprofit sector has adopted the logic and values of the marketplace, imperiling its ability to effectively promote democratic values. Unlike these critiques, which describe the consequences of a marketized nonprofit service, this article examines how the discourses of the market are being extended in th…
Dangerous Government”: Info-Liberalism, Active Citizenship, and the Open Government Directive
There has been much debate about the change Barack Obama represents. This article considers this question by using Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality to explore the underlying governmental rationality of his administration’s policies and management practices. Obama’s governmentality is examined via the Open Government Directive, arguably the central initiative of the administration. The article concludes that this governmentality may be…
Symposium on Critical Perspectives on Nongovernmental Organizations and Action: Introduction
Beyond “Psychic Income”: An Exploration of Interventions to Address Work-Life Imbalances, Burnout, and Precarity in Contemporary Nonprofit Work
Nonprofit scholars and practitioners alike adhere to a long-held assumption that nonprofit work is, and will remain, inherently meaningful work. The long-term marketization of the nonprofit sector coupled with the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic has undercut this narrative. Our research on meaningful nonprofit work indicates that while many nonprofit workers do find their work meaningful, pay, flexibility, and work/life balance are increasingl…
The Dissonance of “Doing Good: Fostering Critical Pedagogy to Challenge the Selective Tradition of Nonprofit Management Education
Nonprofit management classrooms are filled with students who yearn to “do good” in the world and yet, in practice, they confront a dissonance between their vision of doing good and the realities of nonprofit work. This dissonance is in part created by contemporary nonprofit management education (NME) through the development and perpetuation of a selective historical tradition of the nonprofit sector which mythologizes the sector and its work. The…
Re-envisioning the Role of “Big Data” in the Nonprofit Sector: A Data Feminist Perspective
Use of big data in the nonprofit sector is on the rise as a part of a trend toward “data-driven” management. While big data has its critics, few have addressed fundamental ontological and epistemological issues big data presents for the nonprofit sector. In this article, we address some of these issues including most prominently the notion that big data are value neutral and divorced from context. Drawing on data feminism, an intersectional femin…
Constructing Society’s Aide
This article offers a new framework for understanding the role that nonprofit organizations play in American life. Popular sentiment and contemporary nonprofit theory suggest that nonprofits hold a special purpose: They provide assistance when the typical functioning of the economic and political institutions fails. Drawing on the critical perspective afforded by genealogy and on Foucault’s writings on government and liberalism, this article prop…
Constructing Society’s Aide
This article offers a new framework for understanding the role that nonprofit organizations play in American life. Popular sentiment and contemporary nonprofit theory suggest that nonprofits hold a special purpose: They provide assistance when the typical functioning of the economic and political institutions fails. Drawing on the critical perspective afforded by genealogy and on Foucault’s writings on government and liberalism, this article prop…
The Road to Market
Some scholars argue that the nonprofit sector is a venue in which citizens can both learn and exercise their civic duty. Others contend that the nonprofit sector has adopted the logic and values of the marketplace, imperiling its ability to effectively promote democratic values. Unlike these critiques, which describe the consequences of a marketized nonprofit service, this article examines how the discourses of the market are being extended in th…
Dangerous Government”: Info-Liberalism, Active Citizenship, and the Open Government Directive
There has been much debate about the change Barack Obama represents. This article considers this question by using Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality to explore the underlying governmental rationality of his administration’s policies and management practices. Obama’s governmentality is examined via the Open Government Directive, arguably the central initiative of the administration. The article concludes that this governmentality may be…
Against the Cult(ure) of the Entrepreneur for the Nonprofit Sector
The increasing marketization of the nonprofit sector is well documented. Scholars have explored its effects on nonprofit management and discussed its potentially harmful implications, especially as regards the sector’s traditional roles as service provider and advocate, facilitator of democratic discourses, and preserver of civil society. However, this scholarship has not fully explored the implications of a central figure in the discourses of th…
The Quantified Self and the Evolution of Neoliberal Self-Government: An Exploratory Qualitative Study
This article examines the “citizen side” of the performance and audit revolution through an exploration of individuals engaged in a “data-driven life.” Through an exploratory qualitative study of individuals’ video logs taken from the “Quantified Self” Web site, we examine how individuals are using information technology and Web 2.0 interfaces to generate data about themselves for themselves. We explore the questions, “Who are the subjects of gov…
Symposium on Critical Perspectives on Nongovernmental Organizations and Action: Introduction
Toward a Care-Centered Approach for Nonprofit Management in a Neoliberal Era
Traditionally the nonprofit sector has played a dual role in American society, providing venues for both civic engagement and care for those who are unable to participate fully in either democratic governance or the marketplace. As the nonprofit sector becomes increasingly marketized, some scholars have developed “counter-discourses” that seek to reassert the civic role of nonprofits. These counter-discourses are vital to maintaining the sector’s…
Symposium on Critical Perspectives on Nongovernmental Organizations and Action, Part 2
Investigating the Marketization of the Nonprofit Sector: A Comparative Case Study of Two Nonprofit Organizations
It has been well documented in recent years that nonprofits are becoming increasingly marketized. What is less well understood from this body of research is the variation of marketization in the nonprofit sector and how it is made manifest in nonprofit organizations. This article aims to fill this gap in knowledge by recounting the results of a comparative case study of two nonprofits. We examine their marketization through a multifaceted theoret…
Creating Meaningfulness in Public Service Work: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Public and Nonprofit Managers’ Experience of Work
Public service work and public-serving institutions are evolving by incorporating neoliberal modes of working more and more. Contemporary research oftentimes neglects to account for these changes in how we understand public service work, however. This article draws on the meaningfulness in work and public service motivation literature to explore how public service workers are making sense of their work and work environments to create meaningful w…
Re-envisioning the Role of “Big Data” in the Nonprofit Sector: A Data Feminist Perspective
Use of big data in the nonprofit sector is on the rise as a part of a trend toward “data-driven” management. While big data has its critics, few have addressed fundamental ontological and epistemological issues big data presents for the nonprofit sector. In this article, we address some of these issues including most prominently the notion that big data are value neutral and divorced from context. Drawing on data feminism, an intersectional femin…
The Dissonance of “Doing Good: Fostering Critical Pedagogy to Challenge the Selective Tradition of Nonprofit Management Education
Nonprofit management classrooms are filled with students who yearn to “do good” in the world and yet, in practice, they confront a dissonance between their vision of doing good and the realities of nonprofit work. This dissonance is in part created by contemporary nonprofit management education (NME) through the development and perpetuation of a selective historical tradition of the nonprofit sector which mythologizes the sector and its work. The…
Beyond “Psychic Income”: An Exploration of Interventions to Address Work-Life Imbalances, Burnout, and Precarity in Contemporary Nonprofit Work
Nonprofit scholars and practitioners alike adhere to a long-held assumption that nonprofit work is, and will remain, inherently meaningful work. The long-term marketization of the nonprofit sector coupled with the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic has undercut this narrative. Our research on meaningful nonprofit work indicates that while many nonprofit workers do find their work meaningful, pay, flexibility, and work/life balance are increasingl…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Nonprofit Sector (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Business (5 works)