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Building the Knowledge Base of Nonprofit Management:
A Searchable Database
Quantitative Research for Nonprofit Management
Abstract
Although the literature on organizational management has burgeoned
recently, it has focused primarily on far-profit organizations.
Moreover, widely published management prescriptions are often faddish
in nature. It is risky for nonprofit managers to uncritically adopt
these prescriptions. Not only may they be inappropriate for the
nonprofit setting, they may also be based on inadequate research. The
nonprofit sector needs to develop its own research agenda and
distribute usable findings to nonprofit managers. This process is in
its infancy. While research on the nonprofit sector has been vigorous
over the last few decades, most of it has focused on philanthropy or
the delineation of the sector's dimensions. It is vitally important
that management practices in the nonprofit sector be based on sound,
useful research. Given the nature of social science research, much of
this will be quantitative research. In this article, I lay out some
basic parameters of quantitative research and discuss its relevance to
and utility for nonprofit management.
Journal
(Summer 2006)
vol16
no4
pages395-409
Categories
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Classification and Research
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Research Methods
