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 Intersection of Privatization and Public Utility Regulation: The Ohio State University's Energy Concession Agreement
Utilities Policy
2019

Professor Noah Dormady presents a case of a 50-year comprehensive energy concession agreement by The Ohio State University that generated an up-front payment exceeding a billion dollars.

The Need for Ethical Leadership in Combating Corruption
International Review of Administrative Sciences
2019

Professor Russell Hassan empirically assesses the role of ethical leadership in reducing corruption. 

International Research Collaboration: Novelty, Conventionality, and Atypicality in Knowledge Recombination
Research Policy
2019

Professor Caroline Wagner tests for novelty and conventionality in international research collaboration.

Turnover Behavior Among US Government Employees
Review of Administrative Sciences
2019

Professor Joshua Hawley examines US government employees’ turnover before and after the recession.

Why there and then, not here and now? Ecological Offsetting in California and England, and the Sharpening Contradictions of Neoliberal Natures
Enviromental Planning E Nature and Space
2019

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea develops a novel analytical framework for explaining why this kind of environmental market-making may or may not be successful in different contexts.

The Role of Education, Occupational Match on Job Satisfaction in the Behavioral and Social Science Workforce
Human Resource Development Quarterly
2019

Professor Joshua Hawley and colleagues examines the education and workforce outcomes of STEM graduates.

The Economic Impact of the Trade Skirmish of 2018 on the Nation and Ohio
Ohio Manufacturing Institute
2019

Professor Ned Hill examines the trade conflict sparked by the federal government’s initiation of tariffs in 2018 to protect the U.S. steel and aluminum industries.

Stakeholder Perspectives on Sustainability in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Frontiers in Environmental Science
2019

Professor Jeff Bielicki shows how stakeholders interact and perceive the food-energy-water nexus and how those perspectives are shaped.