Minjung Kim

• 2024 Fall
  • PAI 748 Seminar on Nonprofit Management

Minjung Kim is an assistant professor of public administration and international affairs and a faculty affiliate in the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration. She is also an inaugural research fellow of the Gradel Institute for Charity at Oxford University’s New College.

Prior to joining the Maxwell School, she was an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Social Impact and Strategy at the University of Pennsylvania.

Minjung’s research interests include public and nonprofit management, organizational theory, organization-stakeholder interaction, charitable giving, social entrepreneurship and social equity. She is particularly interested in how various organizational strategies influence marginalized populations such as racial minorities and low-income citizens in the context of public and nonprofit organizations.

Minjung received a Ph.D. in public administration from American University in 2021.

Sponsored by Gradel Institute of Charity, Oxford University.

• Journal Articles
  • Lee , S., Kim, M., "Public Perceptions of Sector Bias and Cross-Sector Collaboration: An Experimental Study of Social Service Providers." Public Management Review, 2024.
  • Jung, J., Kim, M. and Suh, J., "The scope of “marketing” research in the nonprofit sector: Lessons from the last 20 years literature." Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing, 2022.
  • Favero , N., Kim, M., "Everything is Relative: How Citizens Form and Use Expectations in Evaluating Services." Journal of Public Administration and Research Theory, 2021.
  • Song, M., Kim, M. and Favero, N., "Social Class, Ingroup-Outgroup Comparison, and Citizen Evaluations: Is User Satisfaction Linked to Outcome Disparities?." The American Review of Public Administration, 2020.
  • AbouAssi, K., Faulk, L., Tran, L., Shaffer, L. and Kim, M., "Use and Perceptions of Nonprofit and Local Government Services in Diverse Urban Settings." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2019.
• Encyclopedia Entry
  • Kim, S., Kim, M., "Citizen Satisfaction in the Public Sector." In Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Management. Schedler, K. (ed.) , 2022.
• Research Report
  • Faulk, L., Kim, M., Derrick-Mills, T., Boris, E., Tomasko, L., Hakizimana, N., Chen, T., Kim, M. and Nath, L., "Nonprofit Trends and Impacts 2021: National Findings on Diversity and Representation, Donation Trends from 2015-2020, and Effects of 2020." In Independent Sector. , 2021.

Kim, M., Russell, A., Frumkin, P., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "Nonprofit Messaging Strategy in the Context of Social Movement Advocacy" (November 16, 2023 - November 18, 2023)

Kim, M., Faulk, L., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "Perceptions of Entrepreneurial Orientation Across the Sectors: Individuals’ Responses to Nonprofit vs. For- Profit Entrepreneurial Behavior" (November 16, 2023 - November 18, 2023)

Lee , S., Kim, M., Southeastern Conference for Public Administration, "Cross-Sector Collaboration and Perceived Legitimacy: Cross-National Study" (September 27, 2023 - September 30, 2023)

Lee , S., Kim, M., Korean Public Administration Summer Conference and Annual KAPA International Conference, "Cross-Sector Collaboration and Coproduction: Does Sectoral Composition Matter?" (2023)

Favero, N., Jensen, C., Kim, M., Piatak, J., Midwest Political Science Association, "What Should Public Organizations Prioritize? Exploring Different Value Hierarchies among the Public" (2023)

Kim, M., Faulk, L., Frumkin, P., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "Signals of Entrepreneurial Orientation on Stakeholder Response: Developing a Scale of Perceived EO in the Nonprofit Sector" (November 17, 2022 - November 19, 2022)

Lee , S., Kim, M., Public Management Research Conference, "Cross-Sector Collaboration and Coproduction: Does Sectoral Composition Matter?" (2022)

Kim, M., Russell, A., Frumkin, P., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "Do Nonprofit Responses to Social Movements Influence Public Perceptions and Support? An Experimental Study" (2022)

Kim, M., Faulk, L., Frumkin, P., International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research, "Signals of Entrepreneurial Orientation on Stakeholder Response: Developing a Scale of Perceived EO in the Nonprofit Sector" (2022)

Kim, M., Jung, J., Suh, J., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "Multi-Faceted Concept of Accountability: Experimental Tests on Stakeholder Perceptions and Giving Behaviors" (2021)

Kim, M., Faulk, L., Willems, J., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "Restoring Public Trust in Charitable Organizations: An experimental test of the effect of different levels of organizational crises on public trust in nonprofits" (2021)

Kim, M., Faulk, L., Willems, J., Public Management Research Conference, "The Role of Performance Signals on Early Organization Reputation Building and the Moderating Influence of Mission Valence" (2021)

Jung, J., Kim, M., Suh, J., The West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference, "The Scope of Nonprofit Marketing Research in the Last Twenty Years: Lessons from the Literature" (2021)

Cheon, O., Kim, M., Favero, N., AcademyHealth Conference, "Testing Their Patients: An Examination of How Patients Weigh Various User Experience Dimensions" (July 28, 2020 - August 6, 2020)

Kim, M., Favero, N., Midwest Political Science Association, "Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Equity: How Do Different Dimensions of Public Values Moderate Citizens’ Perception of Performance Information?" (2020)

Favero, N., Kim, M., Public Management Research Conference, "Representative Bureaucracy and Identity Salience: Do Differences Among Ethnic Groups Drive Identity Salience?" (2020)

Kim, M., Faulk, L., Willems, J., Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "Restoring Public Trust in Charitable Organizations: An Omnibus Experiment Strategy to Test Inter- Organizational Spillover Effects" (2020)

Kim, M., Faulk, L., Science of Philanthropy Initiative, "Testing Differences between Intentions and Actual Behaviors in Giving and Volunteering Experiments" (2020)

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, "The Effect of Perceived "Price" of Civic Engagement on Intention and Behavior of Charitable Giving and Volunteering" (2020)

Song, M., Kim, M., Favero, N., Meier, K., Midwest Political Science Association, "Great Expectations: Parent Aspirations, Children’s Academic Achievement and Its Effect on Citizen Satisfaction" (2019)

Kim, M., Favero , N., Public Management Research Conference, "How Do Citizens’ Heterogeneous Value Priorities Moderate Citizens’ Evaluation on Government Performance?" (2019)

Favero , N., Kim, M., Midwest Political Science Association, "Representative Bureaucracy and Identity Salience: Do Differences Among Ethnic Groups Drive Identity Salience?" (2019)

Favero , N., Kim, M., American Political Science Association, "We’re All in This Together? Panethnic Identity and Bureaucratic Representation" (2019)

Honorable Mention, Gabriel G. Rudney Memorial Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (2024)

Emerging Scholar Award, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (2022)

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

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

Harrell Rodgers Graduate Student Scholarship, Midwest Political Science Association (2020)

The Doctoral Student Research Scholarship ($5,000), American University (2019 - 2020)

Graduate Assistantship and Tuition Scholarship, American University (2016 - 2020)