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Strategic management for public and nonprofit organizations. Building on the success of the first edition, this thoroughly revised and expanded edition explores 1 areas of general agreement from previous research. Toward a nonprofit theory of leadership and organizational. Performance theory and nonprofit organizational effectiveness dr. Such frameworks include corporate planning, system theory. Woodrow wilson and american public ad ministration, edited by jack rabin and james s. Hence, the core competencies and capabilities of nonprofits must include how to effectively manage change. Theory, management, and policy, performance measurement in philanthropic foundations. All in all, the management of nonprofit organizations presents its own set of more or less distin ct challenges that can be addressed at best only partially by adopting the approaches of.
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