Jiahuan Lu

• 2024 Fall
  • PAI 800 Selected Topics - Study of Public Organizations

Jiahuan Lu's research focuses on the nonprofit sector, including government-nonprofit relations and government contracting. He has published over 40 journal articles in prestigious public administration journals such as Public Administration Review and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. He serves as associate editor for three journals and on the editorial board of two additional journals.

Lu has received five grants totaling under $75,000 and has a strong record of community engagement. He received the RGK-ARNOVA President’s Award from ARNOVA in 2022, the Most Popular Article Award 2010-2019 from Non-Profit Management and Leadership in 2020, the Editor’s Prize for Best Scholarly Paper in Non-Profit Management and Leadership in 2017, and the Staats Emerging Scholars Award from NASPAA in 2017.

Lu earned a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in public administration from Peking University.

"Black Live Matters, Stop Asian Hate, ...: Do Nonprofits Make A Difference?", Sponsored by RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, University of Texas at Austin.

• Journal Articles
  • Lu, J., Park, Y., "How Do Nonprofits Use Profits? Evidence from U.S. Nonprofit Hospitals." Public Management Review, 2024.
  • Hsu, H., Lu, J., "Do Citizen Perceptual Measures Align with Archival Performance Measures: A Meta-Analysis." International Public Management Journal, 2024.
  • Lu, J., Shon, J., "Environmental and Organizational Antecedents of Revenue Diversification: Evidence from US Arts and Cultural Nonprofits." Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations.
  • Shon, J., Lu, J., "Demographic Heterogeneity, Political Ideology, and Nonprofit Dissolution." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2024.
  • Lu, J., Chen, Y. and Hung, W., "Public Sector Unionization and Government Contracting: A Meta-Analysis of Four Decades of Empirical Evidence." American Review of Public Administration, 2024.
  • Lu, J., Guan, S. and Dong, Q., "Commercializing Nonprofit Organizations? Evidence from the Chinese Nonprofit Sector." Public Administration, 2023.
  • Hung, C., Lu, J., "Meta-Analysis for Nonprofit Research: Synthesizing Quantitative Evidence for Knowledge Advancement." Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2023.
  • Lu, J., Hung, W., "What Brings Contracting Back In-House? A Synthesis of International Evidence." International Review of Administrative Sciences, 2023.
  • Qian, J., Lu, J. and Zhao, J., "A Replication of "Exploring and Explaining Contracting Out: Patterns among the American States"." Public Administration, 2022.
  • Park, Y., Lu, J. and Shon, J., "Does Nonprofit Commercialization Help Reduce Social Inequality? Revisiting the Cross-Subsidization Hypothesis." Public Management Review, 2022.
  • Lee, C., Lu, J. and Shon, J., "Managing the Market-Mission Tension: When Does Commercial Revenue Crowd Out Charitable Contributions?." Public Performance & Management Review, 2022.
  • Lu, J., Shon, J. and Park, Y., "Beyond Revenue Diversification: Service Diversification and Service Costs in Nonprofit Acute Care Hospitals." Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 2022.
  • Dong, Q., Lu, J. and Lee, C., "Advocating with A Commercial Mindset: The Impact of Commercial Income on Nonprofit Advocacy Engagement." Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 2022.
  • Hung, W., Lu, J., "What Brings the State Back in? An Examination of Contracting Reversal." International Journal of Public Sector Management, 2022.
  • Park, Y., Shon, J. and Lu, J., "Predicting Organizational Mortality: How Financial Management Matters." Administration & Society, 2022.
  • Chen, B., Lu, J. and Dong, Q., "To Have versus To Have Not: A Cross-City Configurational Analysis of Social Service Contracting." American Review of Public Administration, 2022.
  • Peng, S., Lu, J., "When Government is Late to Fulfill Its End of the Bargain: The Relational Effects of Payment Delays on Nonprofit Organizations." Public Performance & Management Review, 2021.
  • Ding, F., Lu, J. and Riccucci, N., "How Bureaucratic Representation Affects Public Organizational Performance: A Meta-Analysis." Public Administration Review, 2021.
  • Dong, Q., Lu, J., "What Type of Nonprofit Organization is Preferred in Government Contracting in China?." International Review of Administrative Sciences, 2021.
  • Dong, Q., Lu, J., "In the Shadow of the Government: The Chinese Nonprofit Sector in the COVID-19 Crisis." American Review of Public Administration, 2020.
  • Lu, J., "Does Population Heterogeneity Really Matter to Nonprofit Sector Size? Revisiting Weisbrod's Demand Heterogeneity Hypothesis." Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2020.
  • Zhao, J., Lu, J., "Does Government Punish Nonprofits for High Administrative Costs in Contracting Decisions?." American Review of Public Administration, 2020.
  • Lu, J., Shon, J. and Zhang, P., "Understanding the Dissolution of Nonprofit Organizations: A Financial Management Perspective." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2020.
  • Peng, S., Liao, Y. and Lu, J., "Stay or Exit: Why Do Nonprofits Maintain Collaborations with Government?." American Review of Public Administration, 2020.
  • Lu, J., Zhao, J., "Does Government Funding Make Nonprofits Administratively Inefficient? Revisiting the Link." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2019.
  • Jilke, S., Lu, J., Xu, C. and Shinohara, S., "Using Large Scale Social Media Experiments in Public Administration: Assessing Charitable Consequences of Government Funding of Nonprofits." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2019.
  • Lu, J., Zhao, J., "The Crowding-Out Effect within Government Funding: Implications for Within-Source Diversification." Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 2019.
  • Lu, J., Lin, W. and Wang, Q., "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, 2019.
  • Lu, J., Zhao, J., "How Does Government Funding Affect Nonprofits' Program Spending? Evidence from International Development Organizations." Public Administration and Development, 2019.
• Book Chapter
  • Chen, Y., Lu, J., "Theories of Privatization and Public Service Delivery." In Handbook of Public Service Delivery. Edward Elgar, 2024.
• Encyclopedia Entry
  • Lu, J., "Dissolution of Nonprofit Organizations." In Encyclopedia of Nonprofit Management, Leadership and Governance. Edward Elgar, 2023.

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (2023)

Academy of Management (2023)

Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research (2023)

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (2022)

Public Management Research Conference (2022)

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (2021)

American Society for Public Administration (2021)

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (2020)

American Society for Public Administration (2019)

European Research Network on Philanthropy (2019)

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (2019)

Public Management Research Conference (2019)

RGK-ARNOVA President’s Award, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) (2022)

Most Popular Articles 2010-2019, Nonprofit Management & Leadership (2020)

Editors’ Prize for Best Scholarly Paper, Nonprofit Management & Leadership (2017)

Staats Emerging Scholars Award, Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) (2013)