Publications

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• Jiahuan Lu and Jongmin Shon. (forthcoming). Environmental and Organizational Antecedents of Revenue Diversification: Evidence from U.S. Arts and Cultural Nonprofits, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations.

• Jiahuan Lu and YoungJoo Park. (forthcoming). How Do Nonprofits Use Profits? Evidence from U.S. Nonprofit Hospitals. Public Management Review. DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2024.2308185.

• Yiying Chen and Jiahuan Lu. (forthcoming). Does Political Ideology Still Matter? A Meta-Analysis of Government Contracting Decisions. Public Administration. DOI: 10.1111/padm.12995.

• Jongmin Shon and Jiahuan Lu. (2024). Demographic Heterogeneity, Political Ideology, and Nonprofit Dissolution. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 53(3), 813-828.

• Jiahuan Lu, Yiying Chen, and Wan-Ju Hung. (2024). Public Sector Unionization and Government Contracting: A Meta-Analysis of Four Decades of Empirical Evidence. American Review of Public Administration, 54(1), 71-89. 

• Hung-Yi Hsu and Jiahuan Lu. (2024). Do Citizen Perceptual Measures Align with Archival Performance Measures: A Meta-Analysis. International Public Management Journal, 27(4), 508-532.

• ChiaKo Hung and Jiahuan Lu. (2023). Meta-analysis for Nonprofit Research:  Synthesizing Quantitative Evidence for Knowledge Advancement. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 34(4), 734-746. 

• Jiahuan Lu, Shanshan Guan, and Qiang Dong. (2023). Commercializing Nonprofit Organizations? Evidence from the Chinese Nonprofit Sector. Public Administration, 101(3), 1072-1087. 

• Jiahuan Lu and Wan-Ju Hung. (2023). What Brings Contracting Back In-House? A Synthesis of International Evidence. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 89(2), 595-610. 

• Jing Qian, Jiahuan Lu, and Jianzhi Zhao. (2022). A Replication of “Exploring and Explaining Contracting Out: Patterns among the American States.” Public Administration, 100(4), 1161-1182.

• Jiahuan Lu, Jongmin Shon, and YoungJoo Park. (2022). Beyond Revenue Diversification: Service Diversification and Service Costs in Nonprofit Acute Care Hospitals. Nonprofit Management and Leadership,  33(2), 427-440.

• YoungJoo Park, Jiahuan Lu, and Jongmin Shon. (2022). Does Nonprofit Commercialization Help Reduce Social Inequality? Revisiting the Cross-Subsidization Hypothesis. Public Management Review, 24(12), 1957-1979.

• Qiang Dong, Jiahuan Lu, Cheon Lee. (2022). Advocating with A Commercial Mindset: The Impact of Commercial Income on Nonprofit Advocacy Engagement. Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 33(1), 203-216.

• Bin Chen, Jiahuan Lu, and Qiang Dong. (2022). To Have versus To Have Not: A Cross-City Configurational Analysis of Social Service Contracting. American Review of Public Administration, 52(4), 317-332. 

• Cheon Lee, Jiahuan Lu, and Jongmin Shon. (2022). Managing the Market-Mission Tension: When Does Commercial Revenue Crowd Out Charitable Contributions? Public Performance & Management Review, 45(3), 532-556.

• YoungJoo Park, Jongmin Shon, and Jiahuan Lu. (2022). Predicting Organizational Mortality: How Financial Management Matters. Administration & Society, 54(5): 828-856. 

• Wan-Ju Hung and Jiahuan Lu. (2022). What Brings the State Back in? An Examination of Contracting Reversal. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 35(4), 441-462.

• Fangda Ding, Jiahuan Lu, and Norma Riccucci. (2021). How Bureaucratic Representation Affects Public Organizational Performance: A Meta-Analysis. Public Administration Review, 81(6), 1003-1018.

• Shuyang Peng and Jiahuan Lu. (2021). When Government is Late to Fulfill Its End of the Bargain: The Relational Effects of Payment Delays on Nonprofit Organizations. Public Performance & Management Review, 44(1), 216-242.

• Qiang Dong and Jiahuan Lu. (2021). What Type of Nonprofit Organization is Preferred in Government Contracting in China? International Review of Administrative Sciences, 87(2), 328-346.

• Jiahuan Lu. (2020). Does Population Heterogeneity Really Matter to Nonprofit Sector Size? Revisiting Weisbrod’s Demand Heterogeneity Hypothesis. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 31(5), 1077-1092.

• Qiang Dong and Jiahuan Lu. (2020). In the Shadow of the Government: The Chinese Nonprofit Sector in the COVID-19 Crisis. American Review of Public Administration, 50(6-7), 784-789.

• Jiahuan Lu, Jongmin Shon, and Pengju Zhang. (2020). Understanding the Dissolution of Nonprofit Organizations: A Financial Management Perspective. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 49(1), 29-52.

• Jianzhi Zhao and Jiahuan Lu. (2020). Does Government Punish Nonprofits for High Administrative Costs in Contracting Decisions?, American Review of Public Administration, 50(3), 286-296.

• Shuyang Peng, Yuguo Liao, and Jiahuan Lu. (2020). Stay or Exit: Why Do Nonprofits Maintain Collaborations with Government? American Review of Public Administration, 50(1), 18-32.

• Sebastian Jilke, Jiahuan Lu, Chengxin Xu, and Shugo Shinohara. (2019). Using Large Scale Social Media Experiments in Public Administration: Assessing Charitable Consequences of Government Funding of Nonprofits. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 29(4), 627-639.

• Jiahuan Lu and Jianzhi Zhao. (2019). Does Government Funding Make Nonprofits Administratively Inefficient? Revisiting the Link. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 48(6), 1143-1161.

• Jiahuan Lu, Weiwei Lin, Qiushi Wang. (2019). Does a More Diversified Revenue Structure Lead to Greater Financial Capacity and Less Vulnerability in Nonprofit Organizations? A Bibliometric and Meta-Analysis. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 30(3), 593–609.

• Jianzhi Zhao and Jiahuan Lu. (2019). The Crowding-Out Effect within Government Funding: Implications for Within-Source Diversification. Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 29(4), 611-622.

• Jiahuan Lu and Jianzhi Zhao. (2019). How Does Government Funding Affect Nonprofits’ Program Spending? Evidence from International Development Organizations. Public Administration and Development, 39(2), 69-77.

• Jiahuan Lu. (2018). Organizational Antecedents of Nonprofit Engagement in Policy Advocacy: A Meta-Analytical Review. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 47(S4), S177-S203.

• Jiahuan Lu and Qiang Dong. (2018). What Influences the Growth of the Chinese Nonprofit Sector: A Prefecture-Level Study. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 29(6), 1347-1359.

• Jiahuan Lu and Johann Park. (2018). Bureaucratization, Professionalization, and Advocacy Engagement in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership, & Governance, 42(4), 380-395.

• Jiahuan Lu. (2018). Fear the Government? A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Government Funding on Nonprofit Advocacy Engagement. American Review of Public Administration, 48(3), 203-218.

• Jiahuan Lu and Chengxin Xu. (2018). Complementary or Supplementary? The Relationship between Government Size and Nonprofit Sector Size. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 29(3), 454-469. 

• Jessica Sowa and Jiahuan Lu. (2017). Policy and Management: Considering Public Management and Its Relationship to Policy Studies. Policy Studies Journal, 45(1), 74-100. 

• Jiahuan Lu. (2017). Organizational Ecology, Institutionalism, and Nonprofit Advocacy Engagement. Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership, 7(3), 213-232.

• Jiahuan Lu. (2016). The Philanthropic Consequence of Government Grants to Nonprofit Organizations: A Meta-Analysis. Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 26(4), 381-400. 

• Jiahuan Lu. (2016). Governing Diversity: The Impact of Social Heterogeneity on Human Service Delivery. Public Organization Review, 16(2), 153-166. 

• Jiahuan Lu. (2016). The Performance of Performance-Based Contracting in Human Services: A Quasi-Experiment. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 26(2), 277-293.  

• Jiahuan Lu. (2015). Organizational or Social Benefits? The Progressiveness of Policy Advocacy in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership, and Governance, 39(5), 509-521.

• Jiahuan Lu. (2015). Which Nonprofit Gets More Government Funding? Nonprofits’ Organizational Attributes and Their Receipts of Government Funding. Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 25(3), 297–312. 

• Jiahuan Lu. (2013). How Political Are Government Contracting Decisions? An Examination of Human Service Contracting Determinants. Public Administration Quarterly, 37(2), 174-200.