Peer Reviewed Research

The Use of Formal Partnership Agreements to Align Service Delivery Across Health and Social Service Systems

Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance

2026

Amanda Smith, colleagues and practitioners find that treatment timeliness was higher in counties where formal partnership agreements emphasized shared purpose across partners.

The Role of Status Incongruence in Employee Responses to Participative Leadership

Human Resource Management

2025

Seo-Young Byun and colleagues argue that participative leaders in status incongruence will be able to boost subordinate affective commitment and organizational citizenship behaviors more than their counterparts with lower status incongruence.

Pursuing Justice in Response to Nonprofit Workplace Sexual Harassment

Journal of Public Affairs Education

2026

This pedagogical practice case by Erynn Beaton examines the true story of “Sara” and her experience encountering sexual harassment in a nonprofit workplace.

Chasing White Whales: Philanthropic Inequality at an Ohio Public Media Organization

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

2026

This research by Erynn Beaton examines the relationship between philanthropy and income inequality using anonymous donation data from WOSU.

Trade-Offs in Justice-Oriented Grid Expansions

Energy Policy

2026

Jeffrey M. Bielicki and colleagues investigate how the regional electricity system serving Ohio and neighboring states can be expanded to accommodate growth in electricity demand and compensate for job losses from the transition away from fossil fuels.

Motivation, Burnout, and Resignation: A Longitudinal Study of Law Enforcement Officers

Review of Public Personnel Administration

2026

Russell Hassan suggests that public service motivation can help sustain law enforcement officers in their roles during challenging periods by dampening burnout-related resignation pressures.

Public Administration Review

2025

Russell Hassan explores whether public service motivation (PSM) can help alleviate burnout among frontline public sector workers, who frequently encounter high job demands and conflicting roles that heighten burnout risks.

Scarcity Mindset as a Predictor of Cryptocurrency Investments

Journal of Economic Psychology

2025

Caezilia Loibl's publication identifies that individuals with a stronger scarcity mindset are more likely to engage in risky investments such as cryptocurrency, even after accounting for other established determinants of investment behavior.

PLOS One

2025

Caezilia Loibl examines that while U.S. military households have homeownership rates similar to civilians, younger post-Vietnam servicemembers accumulate less housing wealth, with financial stress and frequent relocations shaping their ability to build home equity.

PLOS One

2025

Caezilia Loibl examines that for young adults who follow social media influencers, fear of missing out is associated with lower overall wellbeing, but this effect is partly mitigated by parasocial interactions that contribute positively to social, psychological, and financial outcomes.