The Music of Management: Applying Organization Theory

By providing insights into the challenges of management Young combines organization theory and case studies with knowledge to drawn specifically from the world of music. This key text covers how we think about organizational management, how organizations work, how management challenges can be addressed, and how organizational behaviour can be better understood in alternative contexts. Four specific management challenges are analyzed: coordination, work force motivation, market positioning, and managing change and innovation. These distinct management challenges are combined into an overall consideration of achieving organizational excellence. This work is a must for academics, practicing managers, students and teachers.


Young helped establish the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western and was its director from 1988 to 1996. He is also president and founding CEO of the National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise based in Arlington, Virginia. From 1972 to 1987, he was a Professor at the W. Averell Harriman School for Management and Policy.


A former President of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), Dr. Young recently received this organization's Award for Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research. Dr. Young is editing two forthcoming volumes, Financing Nonprofits: Bridging Theory and Practice and Wise Decision Making in Uncertain Times: Using Nonprofit Resources Effectively.


Young is the recipient of numerous grants concentrating on nonprofit interests, and is a widely respected authority in the nonprofit field. He has written many articles and several books, including co-authoring Corporate Philanthropy at the Crossroads, and Economics for Nonprofit Managers. He is founding editor of the journal Nonprofit Management & Leadership, which he edited from 1990 through 2000. He was recently named to the NonProfit Times "Power and Influence Top 50" list.



Hardcover: 173 pages

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing (September 15, 2004)