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

An Examination of the Relationship Between Local Tax Incentives and Diversification of the Local Economic Base
Economic Development Quarterly
2021

Using newly available annual data on incentives at the metropolitan statistical area (MSA) level, Rob Greenbaum and colleagues explore the relationship between incentives and economic diversity between 2005 and 2015. 

Institutional Leadership: Maintaining Mission Integrity in the Era of Managerialism
Nonprofit Management and Leadership
2021

Professor Erynn Beaton develops a framework of practices nonprofit leaders can use to maintain mission integrity

Topic Evolution, Disruption and Resilience in Early COVID-19 Research
Scientometrics
2021

Professor Caroline Wagner explores how the trajectory of and research community around the coronavirus research was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Whatever it Takes: Sexual Harassment in the Context of Resource Dependence
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
2021

Professors Erynn Beaton, Megan LePere-Schloop and Rebecca Smith suggest powerful resource dependencies are present in the public and nonprofit sectors.

Flows and Networks in Global Innovation System Among Top R&D Nations
BRG Institute
2021

This study examines how flows of people and information reveal dynamics about the global information system.

The Impact of Collaboration Network on Water Resource Governance Performance: Evidence From China’s Yangtze River Delta Region
2021

This study, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, examines the relationship between network structure and network performance.

Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Advances of Economic Resilience with Extensions to Complexity, Entropy and Spatial Dynamics
Handbook on Entropy, Complexity & Spatial Dynamics
2021

Professor Noah Dormady presents, further clarifies, and extends the foundations of economic resilience, with an eye to concerns of measurement.

Improved Clusterings and Visualizations of 11,359 Journals in the JCRs 2015
Scientometrics
2021

Professor Caroline Wagner's publication raises a number of questions such as how to collect data of citations related to a given journal; conduct social network analysis on journals related to citations; and produce diagram properly and quickly on a dashboard.