Hello Daniel,
In addition to David's cogent suggestions, I would add a few others. We team teach a course in Social Entrepreneurship (SE) at my university, where we include a lot of non-profit topics, because that's where many of our undergraduate students seek and find jobs.
One approach I have found to be useful is to parallel topics in my Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship courses in the SE one. This works for two reasons. One, it permits using important models and concepts from strategy and entrepreneurship. Two, students see and use the models in multiple classes.
Thus, topics we cover in the course include environmental analysis, mission, corporate governance, innovation, sources of funding, leadership, and performance measurement. Some example readings include:
Oster, Sharon. Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations: Theory and Cases. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Chapter 3, which adapts Porter's Five Forces model to a non-profit setting, is particularly useful.
Kaplan, Robert S. & Grossman, Allen S. "The Emerging Capital Market For Nonprofits", Harvard Business Review, Oct2010, Vol. 88 Issue 10, p110-118.
Bradach, Jeffrey L., Tierney, Thomas J., & Stone, Nan. "Delivering on the Promise of Nonprofits", Harvard Business Review, Dec2008, Vol. 86 Issue 12, p88-97.
Susan Colby, Nan Stone, & Paul Carttar. “Zeroing in on Impact”, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall 2004.
We have used many of these readings at the undergraduate level, and they have worked well.
I am also currently in the process of developing an MBA course in SE and plan to use many of them at that level. I have also started looking at cases for the MBA class. A few that look promising are:
Note on the Nonprofit Sector
Allen Grossman, Naomi Greckol-Herlich
Revision Date: Apr 01, 2009 Publication Date: May 21, 2008
Product number: 308033-PDF-ENG
Length: 18p
Endeavor: Creating a Global Movement for High-Impact Entrepreneurship
William A. Sahlman
Publication Date:Sep 28, 2009
Discipline:
Product number: 810049-PDF-ENG
Length: 35p
Impact Makers
Pat Werhane, Jenny Mead, Edward D. Hess
Publication Date: Jan 21, 2009
Product number: UV1042-PDF-ENG
Length: 27p
We cannot send syllabi via the BPS listserv, but if you're interested in the MBA syllabus when I finish developing it in a few weeks, please let me know, and I will send it to you directly.
Good luck!
Franz Lohrke
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Daniel – some recommendations for reading material – good luck -- david
Bryson, J. M. (2004). Strategic planning for public and nonprofit organizations- a guide to strengthening and sustaining organizational achievement (3rd ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Courtney, R. (2002). Strategic management for voluntary nonprofit organizations. London: Routledge.
Koteen (1991) Strategic management in public and non profit organizations, Praeger, New York, NY.
Moore, M. H. (2000). Managing for value: organizational strategy in for-profit, nonprofit and governmental organizations. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 29(1), 183-204.
Moxley, D. P. (2004). Factors influencing the successful use of vision-based strategy planning by nonprofit human service organizations. International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, 7(1), 107-133.
Powell, W. W., & Friedkin, R. (1987). Organizational change in nonprofit organizations. In W. W. Powell (Ed.), The nonprofit sector- a research handbook (pp. 180-194). New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Salipante, P. F., & Golden-Biddle, K. (1995). Managing traditionality and strategic change in nonprofit organizations. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 6(1), 3-20.
Sharp, Z., & Brock, D. M. (2010). Strategic invasion: Response of the voluntary nonprofit to strategic processes. International Journal of Organizational Analysis. 18(3), 321-339
Stone, M. M., Bigelow, B., & Crittenden, W. (1999). Research on strategic management in nonprofit organizations: synthesis, analysis and future directions. Administration and Society, 31, 378-423.
Stone, M. M., & Bryson, J. M. (2000). Strategic management in the nonprofit sector. In J. Rabin, G. Miller & W. Hildreth (Eds.), Handbook of strategic management (2nd ed., pp. 749-762). NY: Marcel Dekker.
Tschirhart, M., Mesch, D. J., Perry, J. L., Miller, T. K., & Lee, G. (2001). Stipended volunteers: their goals, experiences, satisfaction, and likelihood of future service. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 30(3), 422-443.
Weisbrod, B. A. (1998). The nonprofit mission and its financing: growing links between nonprofits and the rest of the economy. In B. A. Weisbrod (Ed.), To profit or not to profit - the commercial transformation of the nonprofit sector (pp. 1-25, 47-64). New York: Cambridge University Press.
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I'm going to be teaching a strategy course for public sector and nonprofit organizations. Does anyone have a syllabus for such a course that you would be willing to share? Or recommendations for cases or textbooks? Any materials or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Daniel