scholarly journals Accountability in Nonprofit Governance: A Process-Based Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 685-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Tacon ◽  
Geoff Walters ◽  
Chris Cornforth
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Nonprofit Organization ◽  
Observational Research ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

Accountability is a crucial element of governance. Nonprofit organizations are typically accountable to multiple stakeholders and often “do” accountability in multiple ways. But what happens when a nonprofit organization is highly dependent on a single source of funding? This article provides an empirical exploration of this issue. It draws on a longitudinal case study of one nonprofit organization in the United Kingdom that is highly dependent on a single funder to examine how accountability is constructed and enacted, with a focus on the board. It critically examines accountability processes through direct observation of board and committee meetings and in-depth interviews with board members. The analysis shows how board members work to construct broader forms of accountability beyond accountability to the funder, but then struggle to enact them. This article provides in-depth insight into the challenges that nonprofit board members face and offers a rare example of observational research on board behavior.

De Ontwikkeling van Schrijfvaardigheid in het Fins als Vreemde Taal

2009 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 121-132
Author(s):  
Marianne Spoelman ◽  
Marjolijn Verspoor
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Individual Variability ◽  
Dynamic Systems Theory ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Complex Morphology ◽  
L2 Development ◽  
Learner Language ◽  
Insight Into

Within Dynamic Systems Theory (DST), it is assumed that differences in the degree of variability can provide insight into the process of L2 development. This longitudinal case study investigates intra-individual variability in Finnish learner language, focusing on the development of accuracy and complexity. The study involves 54 writing samples, written by a Dutch student who learned Finnish as a foreign language. Finnish, a synthetic language of the agglutinating type, is very different from Indo-European languages and well known for its complex morphology. This complex morphology was investigated for accuracy in form and use. Word-, Noun Phrase-, clause- and sentence constructions were examined for complexity. The purpose of the study was to explain the fluctuations of intra-individual variability and complex relations between variables and to detect both supportive and competitive relationships between growers in order to provide valuable insights into the dynamic processes involved in L2 development.

Casual Resistance: A Longitudinal Case Study of Video Gaming’s Gendered Construction and Related Audience Perceptions

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 819-841
Author(s):  
Amanda C Cote
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Audience Studies ◽  
Casual Games ◽  
Video Gamers ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Many media are associated with masculinity or femininity and male or female audiences, which links them to broader power structures around gender. Media scholars thus must understand how gendered constructions develop and change, and what they mean for audiences. This article addresses these questions through longitudinal, in-depth interviews with female video gamers (2012–2018), conducted as the rise of casual video games potentially started redefining gaming’s historical masculinization. The analysis shows that participants have negotiated relationships with casualness. While many celebrate casual games’ potential for welcoming new audiences, others resist casual’s influence to safeguard their self-identification as gamers. These results highlight how a medium’s gendered construction may not be salient to consumers, who carefully navigate divides between their own and industrially designed identities, but can simultaneously reaffirm existing power structures. Further, how participants’ views change over time emphasizes communication’s ongoing need for longitudinal audience studies that address questions of media, identity, and inclusion.

scholarly journals Nests, arcs and cycles in the lifespan of a studio project

Popular Music ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Slater
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Orchestral Music ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Music Production ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Creativity Research ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Gaining Insight

AbstractMiddlewood Sessions produced a kind of popular music that infuses the timbral aesthetics of jazz and orchestral music with the driving rhythms of dance music. This studio project, lasting for almost eight years, provided a rich resource for gaining insight into the increasingly prevalent context of the domestic project studio via a longitudinal case study approach. At the heart of this research is the desire to understand how people collaborate as part of a studio project, how people use technologies to make music and how all of this unfolds over time. To tackle the question of how to understand the shattered, scattered nature of creative practices, and in extending existing creativity research, I propose three ways of thinking about time: nests, arcs and cycles. While explicating this theoretical framework, something of the specific and idiographic nature of the case study, as an example of contemporary music production, is recounted.

scholarly journals Assessing Organizational Capacity And Sustainability Of A Partnership: The Future Of CERIS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Organizational Capacity ◽  
Collaborative Partnerships ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Academic Partnerships ◽  
Immigration And Settlement ◽  
Depth Interviews

This case study explores the sustainability and continuation of a centre of research and knowledge transfer around issues related to immigration and settlement. It discusses the institutional context of CERIS and the various policy and practice relevant uses of academic research. It draws on literature and theory about organizational capacity in nonprofit organizations and academic partnerships. The case assesses whether CERIS, has the capacity to renew and continue functioning beyond its funding mandate. Data was primarily collected from in-depth interviews with key stakeholders. The results of this paper indicate both opportunities and challenges for a renewed CERIS-like organization to continue functioning in the environment. The study has implications generally for the sustainability of collaborative partnerships.

scholarly journals Does Vocational Education at Regular Schools Matter? – A Longitudinal Case Study of Students’ Experiences with Vocational Orientation Programs

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 218-237
Author(s):  
Sina-Mareen Köhler
Keyword(s):  
Orientation Programs ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Career Plans ◽  
Vocational Orientation ◽  
Transition Pathways ◽  
Socialization Agents ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Empirical Design

This contribution presents results of a longitudinal qualitative study of young adults with different career plans and transition pathways. The central question of this study focuses on the relevance of vocational orientation programs at regular schools for young people’s career plans and transitions. The first part deals with the organization and research about vocational orientation programs. The second part begins by giving an insight into the empirical design of the longitudinal study. It then proceeds to discuss how the methodological perspective of reconstructive research can provide deeper understanding of student’s perspective. Narrative interviews are used as the basis to investigate how the socialization contexts are relevant and interconnected. Through the deeper understanding of student’s perspectives and the role of different socialization agents, it is possible to highlight the relevance of vocational orientation programs at schools. The findings could prove useful for improving vocational orientation programs at schools. Currently, such programs are disconnected from students’ everyday life and show little regard for their perspectives.

scholarly journals Imagined bodies: architects and their constructions of later life

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
pp. 1435-1457 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTINA BUSE ◽  
SARAH NETTLETON ◽  
DARYL MARTIN ◽  
JULIA TWIGG
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Later Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Ageing Body ◽  
Insight Into

ABSTRACTThis article comprises a sociological analysis of how architects imagine the ageing body when designing residential care homes for later life and the extent to which they engage empathetically with users. Drawing on interviews with architectural professionals based in the United Kingdom, we offer insight into the ways in which architects envisage the bodies of those who they anticipate will populate their buildings. Deploying the notions of ‘body work’ and ‘the body multiple’, our analysis reveals how architects imagined a variety of bodies in nuanced ways. These imagined bodies emerge as they talked through the practicalities of the design process. Moreover, their conceptions of bodies were also permeated by prevailing ideologies of caring: although we found that they sought to resist dominant discourses of ageing, they nevertheless reproduced these discourses. Architects’ constructions of bodies are complicated by the collaborative nature of the design process, where we find an incessant juggling between the competing demands of multiple stakeholders, each of whom anticipate other imagined bodies and seek to shape the design of buildings to meet their requirements. Our findings extend a nascent sociological literature on architecture and social care by revealing how architects participate in the shaping of care for later life as ‘body workers’, but also how their empathic aspirations can be muted by other imperatives driving the marketisation of care.

Cat Videos for a Cause

2015 ◽  
pp. 123-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gayla Schaefer ◽  
Leigh Nanney Hersey
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Nonprofit Organization ◽  
Communications Strategies

This chapter explores the progression of a mid-sized nonprofit organization, the Central Brevard Humane Society (CBHS), as it embraces social media as part of its marketing and communications strategies. This case study explores how CBHS has used Facebook to advance its mission despite experiencing common challenges faced by nonprofit organizations when using social media. CBHS was able to overcome some of these issues through solutions and opportunities that can be used by other mid-sized nonprofit organizations to better integrate social media into their own marketing and communications strategies.

scholarly journals Locating Project Studios and Studio Projects

2016 ◽  
Vol 141 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-202
Author(s):  
Mark Slater
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Music Production ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Processing Power ◽  
Simple Question ◽  
Power Project ◽  
Insight Into

ABSTRACTVia a longitudinal case study of a studio project (Middlewood Sessions, 2004–12), this research explores processes of music-making in the increasingly prevalent context of the project studio to give an insight into contemporary music-making practices. Predicated upon technologies of decreasing size but increasing processing power, project studios represent a diversification of musical creativity in terms of the persons and locations of music production. Increasingly mobile technologies lead to increasingly mobile practices of music production, which presents a challenge to the seemingly simple question: where is the project studio? In response, I propose an ontology of project-studio music-making that sets out what conditions have to be met for location, as an active proposition, to take place.

scholarly journals Student experiences of democratic education and the implications for social justice

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-64
Author(s):  
Freya Aquarone
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Democratic Education ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Democratic Schools ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Depth Interviews

Using data from a case-study school as a springboard, this article explores how enactments of democratic education might both problematise and illuminate new possibilities for the way we conceptualise social justice in education. Nancy Fraser’s tripartite framework of social justice is used to analyse in-depth interviews with students aged 14–16 from a democratic school in the United Kingdom. The article makes two key arguments: first, it highlights the interdependence of ‘recognition’ and ‘representation’ and, consequently, calls on mainstream policy and practice to make a substantive commitment to participatory democracy as part of the ‘inclusive education’ agenda. Second, it points to the tensions between ‘redistributive’ justice and other social justice aims which may be particularly stark in democratic education (and other progressive education) spaces. The article suggests that a strengthened relationship between democratic schools and research communities would offer a crucial contribution to collective critical reflection on social justice in education.

scholarly journals University’s Catalytic Effect in Engendering Local Development Drives: Insight into the Instrumentality of Community-Based Service Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Marcellus Mbah ◽  
Charles Fonchingong
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Instrumental Case Study ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Relevant Education

The context of this paper is Africa, where communities have historically looked up to universities within their locality to maximize their intellectual capital and knowledge creation to foster regional development. How well these universities are actively responding to the demands of economic and social development require attention. This paper reports an instrumental case study involving in-depth interviews and focus groups within a bounded locality in Cameroon to address what universities can do to enhance their contribution to local development. Findings suggest that whilst a university’s community-based service learning (CBSL) scheme can be ascertained as an instrument that can engender local development, this requires the fostering of relevant education for informed participation of different stakeholders in the framing but also firming up of CBSL objectives and processes. Furthermore, in order to optimize the prospect for local development instigated by CBSL activities, relevant stakeholders should go beyond short-term planning and adopt futuristic sustainable strategies. There is need to promote deeper dissemination, as well as follow-up on field findings for sustained implementation and outcomes.

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