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Professor Frank Mueller's Outputs (4)

‘Capital Breeds Capital’: Bourdieu and the Cross-National Importation of Organisational Models (2021)
Book Chapter
Yang, R., Harvey, C., Mueller, F., & Maclean, M. (2021). ‘Capital Breeds Capital’: Bourdieu and the Cross-National Importation of Organisational Models. In S. Robinson, J. Ernst, K. Larsen, & O. J. Thomassen (Eds.), Pierre Bourdieu in Studies of Organization and Management: Societal Change and Transforming Fields. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003022510

This chapter draws upon Bourdieu’s concept of capital to examine the importation of organisational models and the adaptive processes that we observed in respective institutional contexts. Through the lens of a longitudinal case study, we demonstrate... Read More about ‘Capital Breeds Capital’: Bourdieu and the Cross-National Importation of Organisational Models.

Elite Philanthropy in the United States and United Kingdom in the New Age of Inequalities (2021)
Journal Article
Maclean, M., Harvey, C., Yang, R., & Mueller, F. (2021). Elite Philanthropy in the United States and United Kingdom in the New Age of Inequalities. International Journal of Management Reviews, 23(3), 330-352. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12247

Elite philanthropy—voluntary giving at scale by wealthy individuals, couples and families—is intimately bound up with the exercise of power by elites. This theoretically oriented review examines how big philanthropy in the United States and United Ki... Read More about Elite Philanthropy in the United States and United Kingdom in the New Age of Inequalities.

The role of mediators in diffusing the community foundation model of philanthropy (2021)
Journal Article
Yang, R., Harvey, C., Mueller, F., & Maclean, M. (2021). The role of mediators in diffusing the community foundation model of philanthropy. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 50(5), 959 - 982. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764021991677

We examine the role of mediators in locally embedding the community foundation model of philanthropy to enable its global diffusion. We hold that mediators, as trusted agents within elite networks, promote and legitimate institutional innovation by t... Read More about The role of mediators in diffusing the community foundation model of philanthropy.