Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations: Theory and Cases

by Sharon M. Oster

Book Overview

Nonprofit organizations in the U.S. earn more than $100 billion annually, and number over a million different organizations. They face increasing competition for donor's dollars and many of the issues they confront are similar to those confronted by for-profit organizations.
Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations applies powerful concepts of strategic management developed originally in the for-profit sector to the management of nonprofits...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195085035
• ISBN13: 9780195085037
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

All students of nonprofit organizations should read this!

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It was well researched and presented. Dr. Oster was able to apply usually dry economic theory and make it come alive in her application of it to the analysis and interpretation of nonprofit organizational behaviour. I hope that it will be widely used as a text book for courses on nonprofit strategic management. The chapter on mission was particularly well crafted.