Introduction to Volume 53

• Published date: 01 January 2021
• DOI: 10.1177/0095399720972014
• Date: 01 January 2021
• Subject Matter: Editorial

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Administration & Society

2021, Vol. 53(1) 3

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Editorial

Introduction to

Volume 53

A minisymposium on the relations of nonprofit organizations to government

in China leads off the first issue of Volume 53 of Administration & Society.

Chao Guo and Zhibin Zhang have organized the minisymposium to explore

the recent trends in scholarship attempting to accommodate the complexity

and fluidity of nonprofit–government relations in the China setting. They

conclude with a synthesis of recent trends in research and likely future

directions.

Rounding out the January 2021 issue, Yuhao Ba presents a theoretical

model for understanding the characteristics of corporate-led environmental

governance, and Byung Hee Min, Youngmin Oh, and Ralph S. Brower

examine the dynamics of feedback in performance management through a

typology of performance feedback signals.

Future issues of Volume 53 will include new and provocative Perspectives

essays; new research on the natu re and limitations of public– private

partnerships in governance; and new inquiries into the complex dynamics

of politics, policy, and administration, among many other facets of admin-

istration and its functions, performance, and impacts in society.

Brian J. Cook

Editor in Chief

Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA, USA

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