THE JOSSEY-BASS HANDBOOK OF NONPROFIT LEADERSHIPAND MANAGEMENT

Abstract

Rikki Abzug is a professor and convener of management at the Anisfield School of Business, Ramapo College of New Jersey. A researcher of orga nizational governance, sector theory, social purpose organizations, and neo institutionalism in organizations, Dr. Abzug is co-author (with Jeffrey Simonoff) of Nonprofit Trusteeship in Different Contexts and (with Mary Watson) Human Resources in Social Purpose Organizations, as well as the author or co-author of a myriad of scholarly peer-reviewed articles in journals, including Organization Science, The Academy of Management Journal, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management & Leadership, and Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations. Dr. Abzug has been a management and market research consultant and has also provided consulting services in nonprofit and board development to management groups in the United States, Poland, and the Ukraine. She served on the Board of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), was a founding leadership council member of the Alliance for Nonprofit Governance (now, Governance Matters), and has been active in a variety of other professional and trade associations. Before joining the faculty of Ramapo, Dr. Abzug was the chair of the Nonprofit Management Program at The New School for Social Research in New York City. Prior to her work at the New School, Dr. Abzug was the associate director of Yale University’s Program on Nonprofit Organizations and a faculty member at New York University’s Stern School of Business.