Purpose: Skills in selecting and designing strategies for implementing research-supported
interventions (RSIs) within specific local contexts are important for progressing a wider RSI …

This study investigates the issue of underwhelming effectiveness in Information
Communication Technology (ICT) by employing a sociotechnical knowledge management …

This article proposes a research program with two goals:(a) to support nonprofit leaders to
productively engage evaluation and (b) to advance a meso-level theory of nonprofit …

Social Workers in Organisations
2 What Can …

This study extends the representative bureaucracy literature by theorizing and empirically
testing how staff sharing lived experience with service users can serve as user …

This article advances the moral philosophical concept of supererogation as a sociological
process through which organizational action outstrips externally imposed evaluative …

ABSTRACT Social innovation within Human Service Organization (HSO) is gradually
gaining momentum, however tools and techniques to promote the same are still in their …

Leveraging a three‐state survey of 323 civil servants and 36 interviews, representing blue
and red states, this university‐government‐nonprofit collaborative research project aims to …

Purpose Research and experience show that evidence-based practice (EBP), ie using the
best available knowledge in daily professional work, is difficult to achieve in social services …

Philanthropic foundations in the USA have long wrestled with how to demonstrate they
contribute to the public good in a democratic society given the outsized voice their wealth …