Marcus Lam
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Marcus Lam is a doctoral candidate at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, Department of Social Welfare and will be teaching the macro community practice course in the social enterprise administration curriculum. Mr. Lam holds a Masters in Public Policy from the UCLA School of Public Affairs and a BA from Occidental College. Mr. Lam's research examines the comparative organizational behavior and effectiveness of for-profit, nonprofit, and public providers in the delivery of social, health, and human services. In particular, he is interested in the commercialization of social, health, and human services and the implications this has for management practices, social work practice, program implementation, client service, and community development.
As a first step towards this research agenda, Mr. Lam's dissertation examines the comparative organizational effectiveness of nonprofit, for-profit, and public providers in the HIV testing field. He is also working on a concurrent paper examining the comparative stability of nonprofit, for-profit, and public childcare centers in California. Mr. Lam employs a multilevel modeling approach to study these organizational processes, taking into consideration individual level, organizational level, and community level variables. Prior to entering the Ph.D. program at UCLA, Mr. Lam served as a senior research associate at the UCLA Center for Civil Society and has published reports on the state of the nonprofit sector in Los Angeles, the state of arts and culture funding in Los Angeles, as well as methodological chapters in the Global Civil Society Yearbook. In addition, Mr. Lam has also held fellowship positions with the Nonprofit Finance Fund, Los Angeles program and EMES European Research Network on social enterprises and the social economy.
Last updated December 10, 2010. |
