Research and Impact

Working to solve the complex problems facing today’s world.

The Glenn College’s world-class faculty brings practical experience and an interdisciplinary approach to research, analysis and technical assistance. Collaborating across policy areas, and with public and private sector organizations, our work seeks to improve public governance and policymaking.

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Recent Publications

What Side of Town? How Proximity to Critical Survival Factors Affects Rural Business Longevity
Growth and Change
2023

Professor Ned Hill examines the impact of proximity to fixed assets on rural business survival during the Great Recession, finding that factors like highway proximity and industry agglomeration play crucial roles in different sectors.

Avid, Averse, Apprehensive, or Apathetic? A Typology of Collaboration Attitudes
Nonprofit Management and Leadership
2023

Long Tran's publication identifies four major types of attitudes toward collaboration opportunities: Avid, Averse, Apprehensive, and Apathetic.

Managers’ Career Paths and Interlocal Collaboration: An Agent Network Collaboration Model
Public Management Review
2023

Hongtao Yi examines the role of change agents, city leaders, and their networks in facilitating interlocal collaboration in environmental governance.

The Eco-Munitionary Subject: Conservation with and of Firearms
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
2023

​​​​​​​Assistant Professor Christopher Rea examines the role of the Pittman-Robertson Act in shaping the relationship between firearms and conservation and seeks to understand how this relationship is reproduced.

The Promise of Coupling Geologic CO2 Storage with Sedimentary Basin Geothermal Power Generation
iScience
2023

This study examines the potential of utilizing geologic carbon dioxide (CO2) storage and CO2 as a working fluid for geothermal energy production to achieve ambitious greenhouse gas mitigation targets and provide load following flexibility for integrating variable renewable energy sources.

“We Expected a Revolution and Got a Slow Burn”: Microfoundations of Institutional Change in the Community Foundation Field
Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly
2023

Megan LePere-Schloop uses a simultaneous qualitative mixed methods design to describe organizational paths to community leadership while considering field-level aspiration toward such change.

Examining inequality in the time cost of waiting
Nature Human Behavior
2023

Katie Vinopal examines the difference between high- and low-income people in time spent waiting for basic services.

The 2022 State of Ohio Families: Challenges and Promises
Marriage & Family Review
2023

Lauren Jones examines the state of Ohio families, addressing challenges and highlighting innovations, programs, and policies aimed at improving family well-being in a changing social, political, and economic landscape.