The Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework provides policy analysts with
concepts and variables, a meta-theoretical language, and diagnostic and empirical tools to …

Assessing the impact of the nonprofit sector on society has been one of the most
fundamental yet challenging questions in public and nonprofit management scholarship …

Public policies are institutional arrangements that set the official rules of the game for society
as we work together to provide public goods and solve complex social dilemmas, such as …

In the early 1970s, scholars studying a variety of service organizations realized that
beneficiaries were not only external stakeholders who received services but they were also …

The commons are alternative social and economic practices for fostering community
development and regeneration. While finance is increasingly criticized as a trigger for …

The field of nonprofit and voluntary action (NVA) studies in the United States originates in
the 1970s and has since grown to encompass multiple scholarly associations around the …

Governance has in many respects become the new management. Just as management
succeeded administration from the 1960s onwards (Grey, 1999), so governance has …

Purpose The concept of the commons, or common goods, is becoming increasingly
widespread in the world of research and among civil society. The commons are defined as …

Urban parks and green space play an important role in the social and ecological life of cities
(Konijnendijk et al. 2013; McKinney 2002; Sushinsky et al. 2013). People value urban green …

This study examines the management characteristics of the Darangyi paddy commons, a
tourism resource in South Korea under the management of local communities. Through …