Her award-winning research employs organization theory to study the nonprofit sector, the evaluation/valuation of public goods, and market-based solutions to social problems. Her last book, /Caring Capitalism: The Meaning and Measure of Social Value/ (Cambridge University Press, 2016), examined the consequences of the emergence of market-based solutions to social and environmental problems for understandings of social value. Other publications include /Contesting Communities: The Transformation of Workplace Charity/ (Stanford University Press, 2006) and articles in /American Journal of //Sociology/, /Journal of Management Studies/, /Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly/, /Social Forces/, and /Social Science History/, among others.