Collaborating for Usable Knowledge: A Work in Progress by the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cinthia H. Schuman ◽  
Alan J. Abramson
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Research Fund ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Usable Knowledge ◽  
Sector Research

The nonprofit sector research fund

1992 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-110
Author(s):  
Elizabeth T. Boris
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Research Fund ◽  
Sector Research

Yale's Compendia of Nonprofit Sector Research

1989 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Dennis R. Young ◽  
Paul J. DiMaggio ◽  
Walter W. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Sector Research

The State of Nonprofit Sector Research in Japan: A Literature Review*

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aya Okada ◽  
Yu Ishida ◽  
Takako Nakajima ◽  
Yasuhiko Kotagiri
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
The State ◽  
Sector Research

Improving the Trustworthiness/Validity of Interview Data in Qualitative Nonprofit Sector Research: The Formative Influences Timeline

2020 ◽  
pp. 089976402097765
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Jones ◽  
Robert Donmoyer
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Social World ◽  
Scientific Objectivity ◽  
Research Instrument ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sector Research ◽  
History Of

Historically, bias has been viewed as a problem with qualitative research, in large part because the researcher is often a qualitative study’s primary (or, in some cases, only) research “instrument.” Even most constructivists who reject traditional notions of scientific objectivity want to produce reasonably accurate reconstructions of their research participants’ interpretations of the social world. In fact, presenting accurate reconstructions is one thing constructivists mean when they talk about a study’s trustworthiness. Various procedures have been developed to minimize bias and ensure trustworthiness. The Formative Influences Timeline (FIT) is one such procedure. This article provides a brief history of bias in qualitative research, describes the FIT and how to use it, and reviews nonprofit research studies that either employed—or could have employed—the FIT to produce data relatively uncontaminated by researchers’ a priori assumptions. The article concludes by acknowledging limitations of the FIT.

Leaping Into Real-World Relevance: An “Abduction” Process for Nonprofit Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 206-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Taylor ◽  
Nuttaneeya (Ann) Torugsa ◽  
Anthony Arundel
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Abductive Reasoning ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Primary Method ◽  
Usable Knowledge ◽  
Heated Debate

Positioned in the midst of the heated debate about the production of relevant and usable knowledge for practitioners in the nonprofit sector and a serious shortage of high-impact research that speaks to practice, the purpose of this Research Note is to direct nonprofit scholarship toward embracing “abduction,” which is the initial creative stage in scientific inquiry that facilitates the formulation of testable explanatory hypotheses and makes new discoveries in a sensory and logically structured way. We use an emerging interest in social innovation by the nonprofit sector as an illustrative example to show the advantages of using abductive reasoning as the primary method of reasoning for discovering new knowledge of a nascent but vital phenomenon. The novel contribution of this Research Note lies in encouraging scholarship on the nonprofit sector to an applied “practice-led” research process that is intellectually relevant and has the potential to bridge the scholar–practice divide.

The State of Nonprofit Sector Research in Japan

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aya Okada ◽  
Yu Ishida ◽  
Takako Nakajima ◽  
Yasuhiko Kotagiri
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
The State ◽  
Sector Research

Meridional Circulation, Turbulence, and Diffusion Processes in Stars

1976 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 109-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Vauclair
Keyword(s):  
Convection Zone ◽  
Diffusion Processes ◽  
Meridional Circulation ◽  
Diffusion Time ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
First Results ◽  
Stellar Envelopes ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Turbulence And Diffusion ◽  
Hr Diagram

This paper gives the first results of a work in progress, in collaboration with G. Michaud and G. Vauclair. It is a first attempt to compute the effects of meridional circulation and turbulence on diffusion processes in stellar envelopes. Computations have been made for a 2 Mʘstar, which lies in the Am - δ Scuti region of the HR diagram.Let us recall that in Am stars diffusion cannot occur between the two outer convection zones, contrary to what was assumed by Watson (1970, 1971) and Smith (1971), since they are linked by overshooting (Latour, 1972; Toomre et al., 1975). But diffusion may occur at the bottom of the second convection zone. According to Vauclair et al. (1974), the second convection zone, due to He II ionization, disappears after a time equal to the helium diffusion time, and then diffusion may happen at the bottom of the first convection zone, so that the arguments by Watson and Smith are preserved.

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