Category: publications

Yuan Cheng, Zhongsheng Wu Existing studies assume that the value of political connections is homogeneous to different types of nonprofits and seldom consider their interplay with other accountability mechanisms. Based on a multilevel analysis of 2,085 foundations in China, this study builds and tests a theoretical framework of the contingent value of political connections to […]

Huafang Li, Jie Liang, Hui Xu, Yingxi Liu Abstract Recently, increasing numbers of nonprofit studies have used experiments to understand individuals’ charitable giving decisions. One significant gap between experimental settings and the real world is the way in which individuals earn the incomes that they use for charitable donations. This study examined the relationship between […]

Qun Wang School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, 1315 E 10th Street, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA Abstract The Regulations on the Management of Foundations (2004) potentially marked a watershed in the development of foundations in China. Many practitioners and researchers believe that, since then, foundations have become an independent sector with significant characteristics. […]

Yongze Song 1,* and Linyun Fu 2,* 1 Australasian Joint Research Centre for Building Information Modelling, School of Built Environment, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6845, Australia 2 George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA * Correspondence: yongze.song@postgrad.curtin.edu.au (Y.S.); fulinyun@wustl.edu (L.F.); Tel.: +61-8-9266-9059 (Y.S.) Abstract: Charitable […]

Qun Wang, Lijun He Abstract Since the 2004 Regulations of Administration of Foundations, there has been limited research on Chinese foundations’ financial health. Considering the importance of foundations in the nonprofit sector, this is a needed task. The present paper conducts an empirical evaluation of their financial health using 2,763 foundations with 10,102 observations. Tuckman and […]

Qun Wang Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, USA Abstract Foundations in China’s nonprofit sector have been increasing in both number and importance. However, scholarly research and nonacademic reports have left a question in the literature waiting to be answered: What led to the recent development and landscape of foundations in China? […]

Qian Wei Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Canada Fulltext: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11266-017-9924-3 Abstract Some nonprofits easily attract resources, while others struggle to survive. However, little is known about what characteristics account for the difference in nonprofit organizations’ capacity to mobilize resources, especially in authoritarian countries. Using multilevel modeling techniques and a national sample of […]