Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations

This UK/European text provides a much-needed summation of strategic management issues in nonprofit organizations, addressing both academic theory and current practice.
The voluntary nonprofit sector is now involved in all aspects of people's lives. The management of these organizations has never been of more interest, and has been changing rapidly with well meaning amateurs being replaced by highly committed and professional leaders. With one in every six employees in the service sector now working in the voluntary sector, this book questions whether voluntary organizations should now be more business-like. This textbook provides insight into the theory and practice of strategic management for voluntary nonprofit organizations for both practitioners and students of voluntary sector management. A collection of case studies provides examples of how some voluntary organizations have developed, and the challenges they have faced, whilst other pedagogic features include review and discussion questions and an extensive bibliography.