Incorporating Critical Qualitative Inquiry in Nonprofit Management Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-59
Author(s):  
A. Emiko Blalock
Author(s):  
Michele Fugiel Gartner

Nonprofit management education (NME) has received attention from scholars and practitioners over the past thirty years. Much of the research on NME focuses on credit-based university courses, primarily reflecting a U.S. context. Left out of analyses are non-credit NME offerings. This article relocates to an English-speaking Canadian landscape where a substantial number of non-credit NME courses are found. Mapping methodologies, favoured to showcase the breadth of NME, cannot offer deeper insight into questions and critiques of non-credit NME curriculum and instruction. This article shows how syllabi review and critical qualitative inquiry can deepen knowledge of non-credit offerings. A new research agenda for non-credit NME is required to support nonprofit managers to achieve their social goals. RÉSUMÉDepuis une trentaine d’années, la formation en gestion des organismes sans but lucratif (OSBL) a retenu l’attention d’universitaires et de praticiens. Cependant, une grande partie de leurs recherches sur la gestion des OSBL se concentre sur des cours universitaires offrant des crédits, et reflète un contexte principalement américain. Les cours sans crédit sur la gestion des OSBL sont omis des analyses. Cet article se focalise sur un paysage canadien anglophone où l’on retrouve un nombre important de cours sans crédit sur la gestion des OSBL. Certaines méthodologies de schématisation, privilégiées pour mettre en valeur la portée de tels cours, sont inefficaces pour offrir un aperçu plus approfondi des questions et critiques concernant le curriculum et l’enseignement de cours sans crédit sur la gestion des OSBL. Cet article montre comment la revue de plans de cours et l’enquête qualitative critique peuvent en revanche servir à approfondir la connaissance de ces cours sans crédit. Ainsi, un nouveau programme de recherche pour les cours sans crédit sur la gestion des OSBL s’avère nécessaire pour aider les gestionnaires d’OSBL à atteindre leurs objectifs sociaux.


Author(s):  
Carol Brunt ◽  
Ruth Hansen ◽  
Megan Matthews

The “best place” debate centers on which disciplinary setting is best for degree programs in nonprofit management education. We contribute to the discussion by reflecting on the constraints and opportunities intentionally identified in a developing program within an established business school. We ground our work in the nonprofit sector’s interdependence with the market and public sectors, and identify opportunities for reciprocity within a business school setting. Finally, we identify cultivating interdisciplinary relationships as a strategy to ameliorate tension between a competitive vs. collaborative “forced choice” approach.


Author(s):  
Matti Znotka ◽  
Florian Brandt ◽  
Jörg Lindenmeier ◽  
Martin Dietrich

In democratic environments, the integration of the public perspective is vital to the continuous legitimization and acceptance of publicly managed systems, as it justifies the organizations’ existence for the stakeholders who provide the financial support. An integration of the public perspective in the design of innovative business models requires an identification of citizens’ values to enable public managers and entrepreneurs to ascertain if their decisions have the potential to create value according to the public will. As healthcare in Germany is largely funded by the public, we asked the German public about crucial values in healthcare. Three value dimensions, ‘proper organization’, ‘skilled treatment’ and ‘social principles’, consisting of nine value categories, could be identified as potential guidelines.


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