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Special Issue Introduction on Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations: Questions and Possibilities for the Next Era

In 2005, Management Communication Quarterly published an agendasetting piece by Laurie Lewis that called for more research and theory building on issues critical to the civil society sector. At the time, virtually no essays had been published in MCQ examining the issues she underscored, and very little work by organizational communication and management scholars had been featured in other journals (cf. Ashcraft & Kedrowicz, 2002; Ganesh, 2003; Kramer, 2004; McComb, 1995).1 Shortly thereafter, we began our doctoral studies at the University of Texas at Austin where we were encouraged to explore and even deconstruct enduring assumptions of organizational forms, structures, and organizing processes. Quickly, I (Lacy) gravitated toward discourses of decision-making in religious and faith-based organizations, and I (Brittany) was drawn to membership experiences in involuntary organizations. From the start, our research questions pushed beyond the foci of