Teaching Strategic Management to Nonprofit Students

Authors

  • William Brown Texas A&M University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18666/JNEL-2016-V6-I3-7587

Keywords:

strategic management, instructional approaches, nonprofit

Abstract

Strategic management is a multidisciplinary concept with rich theoretical and empirical backgrounds that can inform decision making in organizations. Strategic management is defined as a blend of management practices that entails interpreting environmental conditions and designing systems to foster success (Miles & Snow, 1978). Applying strategic management concepts to the nonprofit sector is not a new idea (Kearns, 1994; Moore, 2000; Oster, 1995), but translating those concepts in a way that is instrumental to students in a nonprofit management class remains a challenge. In this paper, I introduce a framework to inform strategic thinking and suggest how to introduce these ideas to students studying nonprofit management. The four components of the framework are summarized and teaching strategies are reviewed.

Published

2016-07-01

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