Understanding Nonprofit Organizations: Governance, Leadership, and Management - Softcover

Ott, Steven J.

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9780813367873: Understanding Nonprofit Organizations: Governance, Leadership, and Management

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ISBN 10: 0813367875 ISBN 13: 9780813367873

Publisher: Westview Press, 2001

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J. Steven Otts Understanding Nonprofit Organizations: Governance, Leadership, and Management is a collection of the most insightful and most recent readings about the challenges of managing a nonprofit organization in the United States. The anthology examines the distinctiveness of nonprofit organizations through the writing of scholars, consultants, and practicing executives. It focuses on governing, leading, and managing nonprofit organizations and how nonprofit organizations differ from both the public and private sectors. The 37 chapters speak to the most important functions, contextual factors and internal functions, concepts, and issues that face todays leaders and managers of nonprofit organizations. Understanding Nonprofit Organizations: Governance, Leadership, and Management is an ideal text for use in graduate and upper-division undergraduate survey courses on nonprofit organizations and management.

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"Ott and Dicke should be applauded for their outstanding efforts, which bridge the macro and micro levels of the nonprofit sector for the first time and consequentially enrich the intellectual understanding of the field." – Public Administration Review, Vol. 73, Issue 1, January/February, 2013

"In my view, nothing competes with this book. It differs from all others in the foundational nature of its readings, the scope of coverage, and the introductory essays of the co-editors that synthesize concepts and knit together the ideas of others." – Kathleen Hale, Auburn University

"This is an excellent resource to give students a taste for research in the field. It covers a variety of topics across the gamut of nonprofit management, and the introductions to the topics are clear and make the issue interesting for my students. Without this book, the course would be shallow." – Russell A. Cargo, Carroll College

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Edited by two leading nonprofit organizations scholars, Understanding Nonprofit Organizations features classic and current readings, as well as case studies, on the crucial issues in the management of nonprofit organizations.

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