Peter F. Drucker Boxed Set (8 Books) (The Drucker Library)

PART III

The Non-Profit Sector

Most people do not hear “management”; they hear “business management.” Management as a function, as an organ of authority and responsibility, and as a discipline was indeed first seen, identified, and studied as a part of business enterprise. But this is hardly more than a historical—and primarily American—accident. Management is the specific organ of any modern institution. The people in management may be called by different names—schools and hospitals, for instance, prefer to speak of administrators. But what all of them do is to manage. What all of them practice is management.

And the non-business institutions, ...