Dyana P Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 4395715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dyana P Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dyana P |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2385-4044 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Reliance Typology of Collaborative Governance Platforms
Collaborative governance has been discussed extensively in the public administration and management literatures, but there has been limited focus on structure and on the platforms supporting ongoing efforts. This article explores thirty collaborative groups over a 12-year period, using surveys, interviews, financial reports, and other data. The study proposes a typology of platforms based on their reliance on stakeholder boards, staff, or partner…
Navigating Transformations During Global Crisis
The dynamics of nonprofit-government partnerships are essential for delivering public services, particularly in times of crisis. This study examines how these relationships influenced the resilience of nonprofits during the recent pandemic. Rather than focusing solely on the pandemic's impact, we explore how nonprofit-government partnerships prompted strategic changes within the nonprofit sector. Drawing on interdependency and resource dependency…
Experiential learning… remotely
Experiential learning has become a fundamental pillar of higher education, particularly in public administration and nonprofit management programmes. This approach purposefully aims to engage learners directly in (a) concrete experiences; (b) focused, personal reflection; (c) abstract conceptualizations and (d) active experimentation. As universities have increased attention on experiential learning, they have also developed more study‐abroad opp…
Developing the Field of Behavioral Nonprofit Management
We define behavioral nonprofit management as the study of the micro-foundations of nonprofit management through analyzing the behavior and attitudes of individuals and groups in the context of nonprofit organizations. While nonprofit management research traditionally relies on administrative or survey data and is primarily concerned with organizational and environmental variables at the meso- and macro- level, the behavioral approach focuses on i…
Digital platforms and entrepreneurial support
The benefits of entrepreneurial mentorship are well documented, but there is limited research on how entrepreneurs connect with mentors, especially in digital settings. We partnered with an online platform that connects entrepreneurs to potential mentors to conduct a field experiment in online mentoring. Drawing on literature on entrepreneurial mentorship and Social Cognitive Theory, we compared the effects of three interventions on the likelihoo…
Accessibility of Nonprofit Services
Nonprofit organizations often partner with government agencies to deliver public services. As communities adapt to new transportation options and technologies, nonprofit organizations and the services they provide need to be kept accessible to their clients. This exploratory research note is among the first of its kind to consider the impact of transportation network companies – like Uber and Lyft – on the accessibility of human services provided…
Exploring nonprofit dilemmas through a new lens
Experimental studies have just begun to diffuse slowly in nonprofit research, reflecting the general recognition that experimental studies can help nonprofit researchers overcome some limitations of the methods that have traditionally been used. This special issue includes four papers that consider the diversity of experimental research in nonprofit studies. First, a systematic literature review of experimental studies in fundraising provides a n…
Can Institutional Support Improve Volunteer Quality? An Analysis of Online Volunteer Mentors
Volunteer management practices have been shown to have positive effects on employees in terms of skill development, job success, organizational identity, and morale in the public, nonprofit, and corporate sectors. Despite considerable research on volunteering, questions remain about how management practices of volunteer programs may affect volunteer performance. Leveraging data comparing self-enrolled and corporate-recruited volunteer mentors int…
The Professionalization of an Evolving Sector
Over the past two decades, attention has focused on the increasing professionalization of the nonprofit sector. Hwang and Powell’s article on professionalization and rationalization of the nonprofit sector laid the theoretical foundations for robust scholarship in this area. This study makes use of a unique dataset that offers the opportunity to study the development of a subsector of small community-based nonprofit organizations, watershed counc…
Government funding and fundraising
Purpose Many empirical studies have focused on whether public funding leverages (crowds in) or discourages (crowds out) private giving behavior, finding mixed results. Recent studies suggest the need to examine how nonprofits adjust their fundraising efforts after experiencing cuts or increases in government funding, which can then influence donor behavior. Design/methodology/approach In this study, the authors conduct an online survey experiment…
Teaching Social Justice in Nonprofit Management Education
Within higher education, there is mounting pressure for increased discussions of diversity, inclusion, and social justice. Although these topics are particularly relevant to nonprofit management education (NME), instructors have expressed uncertainty about how they should proceed in incorporating these topics into their courses. Here, we argue a critical pedagogy framework can support instructors to address effectively topics of diversity, inclus…
Measuring Latent Constructs in Nonprofit Surveys with Item Response Theory
Latent constructs are the unobservable characteristics of individuals, groups and organizations. Although researchers use many tools to measure latent constructs, including scaled-items and factor analysis techniques, this study offers a different way to measure these characteristics in nonprofit research. Using Item Response Theory (IRT), this study develops one approach to measure revealed political ideology among leaders in nonprofit social we…
Study Abroad, Global Citizenship, and the Study of Nongovernmental Organizations
Nonprofit education and management programs often recognize the efficacy of including experiential learning opportunities such as study abroad in their curricula. In addition, higher education institutions increasingly prioritize global citizenship as a learning outcome. However, challenges abound for educators who want to evaluate study abroad courses that expect students to acquire or deepen their levels of global citizenship. This study seeks …
Crisis on the Border
Traditional views of the nonprofit–government relationships suggest that while government may depend on nonprofit organizations to provide human services, nonprofits must also conform to government standards, monitoring, and regulation. In this paper, we argue that through specialized investments in capacity building, nonprofit providers can become irreplaceable to government funders. By developing a comparison case study of two organizations ser…
Ideology and Local Public Expenditure Priorities
Local governments prioritize spending on various types and levels of public services. Although scholars have shown that citizen preferences and institutional factors, such as economic, political, and legal arrangements, play a role in resource allocation, scholars have not systematically examined the impact of local elected officials’ own ideological preferences on service prioritization. A better understanding of the impact of personal ideology …
Advocacy in Nonprofit Organizations
The influence of nonprofit leaders in organizational advocacy strategies and outcomes has not been fully explored in the literature, despite the recognition that political or policy entrepreneurs are crucial to the American policy process. These leaders are placed squarely in the political arena with other political elites, including elected officials, and this study uses a common agency framework to describe the ways in which leaders should be e…
Measuring Agency Attributes with Attitudes Across Time
Public management researchers are interested in many characteristics of organizations that cannot be directly captured, making aggregated attitudes from surveys an attractive proxy. Yet difficulties in measuring meaningful attributes over time and across organizations have frequently limited statistical designs to a single organization or time. We offer a method for creating such statistical measures across agencies and time using item response t…
Politics, management, and the allocation of arts funding
Studies of distributive public policy claim that electoral incentives shape the geographic distribution of government grants to individuals and organizations, such as those in arts and culture. Public management scholarship suggests that managers bring value to their communities and stakeholders within them through their capacity and skill. This study combines these literatures in a quantitative study of the geographic distribution of Grants for …
Measuring Agency Attributes with Attitudes Across Time
Public management researchers are interested in many characteristics of organizations that cannot be directly captured, making aggregated attitudes from surveys an attractive proxy. Yet difficulties in measuring meaningful attributes over time and across organizations have frequently limited statistical designs to a single organization or time. We offer a method for creating such statistical measures across agencies and time using item response t…
Ideology and Local Public Expenditure Priorities
Local governments prioritize spending on various types and levels of public services. Although scholars have shown that citizen preferences and institutional factors, such as economic, political, and legal arrangements, play a role in resource allocation, scholars have not systematically examined the impact of local elected officials’ own ideological preferences on service prioritization. A better understanding of the impact of personal ideology …
Teaching Social Justice in Nonprofit Management Education
Within higher education, there is mounting pressure for increased discussions of diversity, inclusion, and social justice. Although these topics are particularly relevant to nonprofit management education (NME), instructors have expressed uncertainty about how they should proceed in incorporating these topics into their courses. Here, we argue a critical pedagogy framework can support instructors to address effectively topics of diversity, inclus…
Crisis on the Border
Traditional views of the nonprofit–government relationships suggest that while government may depend on nonprofit organizations to provide human services, nonprofits must also conform to government standards, monitoring, and regulation. In this paper, we argue that through specialized investments in capacity building, nonprofit providers can become irreplaceable to government funders. By developing a comparison case study of two organizations ser…
Advocacy in Nonprofit Organizations
The influence of nonprofit leaders in organizational advocacy strategies and outcomes has not been fully explored in the literature, despite the recognition that political or policy entrepreneurs are crucial to the American policy process. These leaders are placed squarely in the political arena with other political elites, including elected officials, and this study uses a common agency framework to describe the ways in which leaders should be e…
Politics, management, and the allocation of arts funding
Studies of distributive public policy claim that electoral incentives shape the geographic distribution of government grants to individuals and organizations, such as those in arts and culture. Public management scholarship suggests that managers bring value to their communities and stakeholders within them through their capacity and skill. This study combines these literatures in a quantitative study of the geographic distribution of Grants for …
The Professionalization of an Evolving Sector
Over the past two decades, attention has focused on the increasing professionalization of the nonprofit sector. Hwang and Powell’s article on professionalization and rationalization of the nonprofit sector laid the theoretical foundations for robust scholarship in this area. This study makes use of a unique dataset that offers the opportunity to study the development of a subsector of small community-based nonprofit organizations, watershed counc…
Politics, management, and the allocation of arts funding
Studies of distributive public policy claim that electoral incentives shape the geographic distribution of government grants to individuals and organizations, such as those in arts and culture. Public management scholarship suggests that managers bring value to their communities and stakeholders within them through their capacity and skill. This study combines these literatures in a quantitative study of the geographic distribution of Grants for …
Advocacy in Nonprofit Organizations
The influence of nonprofit leaders in organizational advocacy strategies and outcomes has not been fully explored in the literature, despite the recognition that political or policy entrepreneurs are crucial to the American policy process. These leaders are placed squarely in the political arena with other political elites, including elected officials, and this study uses a common agency framework to describe the ways in which leaders should be e…
Measuring Agency Attributes with Attitudes Across Time
Public management researchers are interested in many characteristics of organizations that cannot be directly captured, making aggregated attitudes from surveys an attractive proxy. Yet difficulties in measuring meaningful attributes over time and across organizations have frequently limited statistical designs to a single organization or time. We offer a method for creating such statistical measures across agencies and time using item response t…
Crisis on the Border
Traditional views of the nonprofit–government relationships suggest that while government may depend on nonprofit organizations to provide human services, nonprofits must also conform to government standards, monitoring, and regulation. In this paper, we argue that through specialized investments in capacity building, nonprofit providers can become irreplaceable to government funders. By developing a comparison case study of two organizations ser…
Ideology and Local Public Expenditure Priorities
Local governments prioritize spending on various types and levels of public services. Although scholars have shown that citizen preferences and institutional factors, such as economic, political, and legal arrangements, play a role in resource allocation, scholars have not systematically examined the impact of local elected officials’ own ideological preferences on service prioritization. A better understanding of the impact of personal ideology …
Measuring Latent Constructs in Nonprofit Surveys with Item Response Theory
Latent constructs are the unobservable characteristics of individuals, groups and organizations. Although researchers use many tools to measure latent constructs, including scaled-items and factor analysis techniques, this study offers a different way to measure these characteristics in nonprofit research. Using Item Response Theory (IRT), this study develops one approach to measure revealed political ideology among leaders in nonprofit social we…
Study Abroad, Global Citizenship, and the Study of Nongovernmental Organizations
Nonprofit education and management programs often recognize the efficacy of including experiential learning opportunities such as study abroad in their curricula. In addition, higher education institutions increasingly prioritize global citizenship as a learning outcome. However, challenges abound for educators who want to evaluate study abroad courses that expect students to acquire or deepen their levels of global citizenship. This study seeks …
Teaching Social Justice in Nonprofit Management Education
Within higher education, there is mounting pressure for increased discussions of diversity, inclusion, and social justice. Although these topics are particularly relevant to nonprofit management education (NME), instructors have expressed uncertainty about how they should proceed in incorporating these topics into their courses. Here, we argue a critical pedagogy framework can support instructors to address effectively topics of diversity, inclus…
Government funding and fundraising
Purpose Many empirical studies have focused on whether public funding leverages (crowds in) or discourages (crowds out) private giving behavior, finding mixed results. Recent studies suggest the need to examine how nonprofits adjust their fundraising efforts after experiencing cuts or increases in government funding, which can then influence donor behavior. Design/methodology/approach In this study, the authors conduct an online survey experiment…
Exploring nonprofit dilemmas through a new lens
Experimental studies have just begun to diffuse slowly in nonprofit research, reflecting the general recognition that experimental studies can help nonprofit researchers overcome some limitations of the methods that have traditionally been used. This special issue includes four papers that consider the diversity of experimental research in nonprofit studies. First, a systematic literature review of experimental studies in fundraising provides a n…
Can Institutional Support Improve Volunteer Quality? An Analysis of Online Volunteer Mentors
Volunteer management practices have been shown to have positive effects on employees in terms of skill development, job success, organizational identity, and morale in the public, nonprofit, and corporate sectors. Despite considerable research on volunteering, questions remain about how management practices of volunteer programs may affect volunteer performance. Leveraging data comparing self-enrolled and corporate-recruited volunteer mentors int…
The Professionalization of an Evolving Sector
Over the past two decades, attention has focused on the increasing professionalization of the nonprofit sector. Hwang and Powell’s article on professionalization and rationalization of the nonprofit sector laid the theoretical foundations for robust scholarship in this area. This study makes use of a unique dataset that offers the opportunity to study the development of a subsector of small community-based nonprofit organizations, watershed counc…
Accessibility of Nonprofit Services
Nonprofit organizations often partner with government agencies to deliver public services. As communities adapt to new transportation options and technologies, nonprofit organizations and the services they provide need to be kept accessible to their clients. This exploratory research note is among the first of its kind to consider the impact of transportation network companies – like Uber and Lyft – on the accessibility of human services provided…
Developing the Field of Behavioral Nonprofit Management
We define behavioral nonprofit management as the study of the micro-foundations of nonprofit management through analyzing the behavior and attitudes of individuals and groups in the context of nonprofit organizations. While nonprofit management research traditionally relies on administrative or survey data and is primarily concerned with organizational and environmental variables at the meso- and macro- level, the behavioral approach focuses on i…
Digital platforms and entrepreneurial support
The benefits of entrepreneurial mentorship are well documented, but there is limited research on how entrepreneurs connect with mentors, especially in digital settings. We partnered with an online platform that connects entrepreneurs to potential mentors to conduct a field experiment in online mentoring. Drawing on literature on entrepreneurial mentorship and Social Cognitive Theory, we compared the effects of three interventions on the likelihoo…
Experiential learning… remotely
Experiential learning has become a fundamental pillar of higher education, particularly in public administration and nonprofit management programmes. This approach purposefully aims to engage learners directly in (a) concrete experiences; (b) focused, personal reflection; (c) abstract conceptualizations and (d) active experimentation. As universities have increased attention on experiential learning, they have also developed more study‐abroad opp…
A Reliance Typology of Collaborative Governance Platforms
Collaborative governance has been discussed extensively in the public administration and management literatures, but there has been limited focus on structure and on the platforms supporting ongoing efforts. This article explores thirty collaborative groups over a 12-year period, using surveys, interviews, financial reports, and other data. The study proposes a typology of platforms based on their reliance on stakeholder boards, staff, or partner…
Navigating Transformations During Global Crisis
The dynamics of nonprofit-government partnerships are essential for delivering public services, particularly in times of crisis. This study examines how these relationships influenced the resilience of nonprofits during the recent pandemic. Rather than focusing solely on the pandemic's impact, we explore how nonprofit-government partnerships prompted strategic changes within the nonprofit sector. Drawing on interdependency and resource dependency…
Political science (17 works) · Public relations (14 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (12 works) · Business (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Law (6 works)