Jason Coupet

Jason Coupet is an Associate Professor of Public Management and Policy in the Andrew Young School for Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Jason’s Ph.D. is in Strategic Management from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and his BA in Economics from the University of Michigan. He is on the Executive Board of ARNOVA, the APPAM Policy Council, and on the board of the Public Management Research Association.

 

His research interests include organizational economics, as well as strategy and management science applications in the public sector. His research has appeared in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Business Strategy the Environment, Journal of Technology Transfer, and Nonprofit Management Leadership, among others. His work has been funded by the Sloan Foundation, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, and the North Carolina Department of Transportation. His work has been covered by The Washington Post, The Conversation, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. He serves as an Associate Editor of Journal of Nonprofit Management and Leadership, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, and the Academy of Management Perspectives.

 

Jason and his wife Qiana are native to the southside of Chicago. Before the academy, Jason sevred as an elementary school teacher and basketball coach in Chicago Public Schools on Chicago’s southeast side. He has three chiildren (Sasha, Zeke, and Sy). He coaches youth basketball and baseball, and enjoys recreational boxing, running, street food (especially Haitian food), and Islay scotch.