Dr. Noga Pitowsky-Nave

Lecturer

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Pitowsky-Nave, N., Schmid, H. & Yemini, N.  (2026). "An Urge to Take Action": Motivational Pathways of Crisis-Activated Social Entrepreneurs. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.

Pitowsky-Nave, N., Lahat, L. & Klenk, T. (2026). “Leave the Ego at the Door"- Power Relations in Collaborative Social Service Governance. Human Service organizations: Management, Leadership and Governance.

Pitowsky-Nave, N.  & Hochman, Y. (2025). Pursue or abstain? Career choices of social work graduates. Social Work Education. 

Gadot, L. & Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2025). Girl Power? The Perceptions and Practices of Employment Promoting Social Workers Supporting Women’s Labour Market Integration. The British Journal of Social Work. 

Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2024). "To dream big"- Social Entrepreneurship in civil society social service organizations. Society and Welfare, 44(3),330-352 (Hebrew).

Hochman, Y. & Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2024). My journey to Become a Social Worker: Defining Moments of Professional Identity Formation. The British Journal of Social Work.

Pitowsky-Nave, N., Almog-bar, M. & Schmid, H. (2024). Cross-sectoral Collaborations between Nonprofit Organizations and Businesses: implications for organizations providing Mental Health Rehabilitation Services. Social Work in Mental Health.

Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2024). "Between the rocket and the outbreak": Civil society organizations in southern Israel negotiating COVID-19, social peripherality, and security threat. Journal of Social Security (Hebrew).

Pitowsky-Nave, N., Almog-bar, M. & Schmid, H. (2023). Collaboration Between Businesses and Social Service Nonprofits as Organized Anarchy: The Insider Perspective. Human Service organizations: Management, Leadership and Governance.

Lahat, L., Klenk, T. & Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2023). Street-Level Bureaucrats as Policy Entrepreneurs and Collaborators: Findings from Israel and Germany. European Policy Analysis.

Gadot, L. & Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2023). Between Emotion and Occupation: Employment Promoting Practice with People in Unemployment from Social Workers’ Perspective. European Journal of Social Work.

Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2022). From "Crisis" to "Opportunity": Israeli Social Service Nonprofits’ Responses to COVID-19. Human Service organizations: Management, Leadership and Governance.

Pitowsky-Nave, N., Almog-bar, M. & Schmid, H. (2022). "Engineering corporate volunteering"- corporate volunteering in non-profit organizations. Journal of Social Security.  (Hebrew).

Gadot, L. & Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2021). From "something a bit made-up" to "a fully developed position": Occupational social work as a changing profession, Journal of Social security. (Hebrew)

Pitowsky-Nave, N., Almog-bar, M. & Schmid, H. (2020). "Our garden is full of joy"- Collaboration between business and social organizations, as a form of Corporate Social Responsibility. The Study of Organizations and Human Resource Management Quarterly. (Hebrew).

Almog-Bar, M., Cnaan, R.A., Pitowsky-Nave, N. & Turi, K. (2020). Israeli Peace Nonprofits Promoting Social Good: Characteristics of Active and Inactive Organizations. Research on Social Work Practice.

Chapters in Edited Books

Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2026). Between policy implementation and policy entrepreneurship: The role hybridity of civil society organizations in the policy cycle. In Klenk, T., and Lahat, L. (Eds). Handbook of Social Policy Implementation. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2025). From "Crisis" to "Opportunity": Israeli Social Service Nonprofits’ Responses to COVID-19. In Schmid, H. and Greenspan, I. (Eds). Human Service Organizations in Times of the COVID-19. Routledge. 

Book Reviews

Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2026).Review of Social Workers in Political Office: A Comparative Perspective on Recruitment, Career Patterns and Social Advocacy, by Kindler, T., Leitner, S., Löffler, E. M., & Stolz, K. (Eds.). (2026) British Journal of Social Work.

Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2022). Review of Policy entrepreneurship at the street level: Understanding the effect of the individual. By Cohen, N. (2022). Social Policy and Administration.

Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2018). Review of Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Tools and Theories for Responsible Management. By Haski-Leventhal, D. (2018). (Hebrew).

Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2014). Review of Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation. By Amaeshi, K., Nnodim, P., & Osuji, O. (2013). Journal of Social Security. (Hebrew).

Articles in Non-Refereed Journals

Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2026). "The Bot in the Room": Supervision of Social Work Students in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Meidaos: The Journal of Social Workers, 108. (Hebrew). 

Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2025). The Hostage Issue as a Test of the Foundational Principles of the Social Work Profession. Meidaos: The Journal of Social Workers, 106. (Hebrew).

Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2023). Layers of conflict: Teaching a multicultural Jewish-Arab seminar in Israel. Social Dialogue, 27, 83-87. 

International Conference presentations

Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2026). Artificial Intelligence, Professional Discretion, and the Future of Social Work Identity. ESPAnet – The European Network for Social Policy Analysis. Lisbon School of Economics & Management (ISEG), University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2026). Social Workers and AI in Practice. European Conference for Social Work Research (ECSWR). University of Aberdeen, UK.

Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2026). Social Workers for Democracy: Grassroots Pathways to Policy Engagement. European Conference for Social Work Research (ECSWR). University of Aberdeen, UK.

Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2026). Pursue or Abstain? Career Choices of Social Work Graduates. Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Annual Conference. Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, USA.

Pitowsky-Nave, N.  (2025). "We realized the vacuum and decided to take action"- Grassroots Organizations in the Iron Swords war- Are they a substitute for the absence of the state? AIS- Association for Israel Studies. University of Haifa, Israel

Pitowsky-Nave, N.  (2025). "Girl Power"? Employment-Promoting Social Workers Navigating Neoliberal and Feminist Approaches When Working with Female Clients. AIS- Association for Israel Studies. University of Haifa, Israel

Pitowsky-Nave, N.  (2025). "The confident", "the pausing" and "the ambivalent"-Three types of Social Work. European Conference for Social Work Research (ECSWR). University of Applied Science, Munich, Germany.

Pitowsky-Nave, N.  (2025). Caught between the "professional" and the "political"- social work at times of ongoing conflict and war. European Conference for Social Work Research (ECSWR). University of Applied Science, Munich, Germany.

Pitowsky-Nave, N.  (2024). "'This is My Lifework': Civil Society Organizations in Southern Israel between Hardship and Resilience." AIS- Association for Israel Studies- Charles University, Prague, The Czech Republic.

Pitowsky-Nave, N.  (2023). "Social Service Workers as Street-Level Policy Entrepreneurs and Collaborators." European Conference for Social Work Research. Università Cattolica, Milan, Italy.

Lahat, L., Klenk, T. & Pitowsky-Nave, N.   (2022). "Street-Level Bureaucrats as Policy Entrepreneurs and Collaborators: Findings from Israel and Germany." ESPAnet – The European Network for Social Policy Analysis. University of Vienna, Austria.

Pitowsky-Nave, N.  (2022). From "Crisis" to "Opportunity": Israeli Social Service Nonprofits’ Responses to COVID-19. AIS- Association for Israel Studies- Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Pitowsky-Nave, N.  (2021). "Cross-sector collaborations: Examining Business and NPO Collaborations". International Society for Third sector Research (ISTR), Montreal, Canada.

Elsana-Alhjooj, A. & Pitowsky-Nave, N. (2021).""Balancing the 'social' and the 'financial' - Social Enterprises responses to COVID-19 pandemic- The case of Al-Sanabel for Bedouin women in the south Israel". International Society for Third sector Research (ISTR), Montreal, Canada.

Pitowsky-Nave, N.  (2021). Social service NPOs and their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. ARNOVA- Association for research on non-profit organizations and voluntary action. Atlanta, G.A, U.S.A