Daisha M Merritt

Title
Assistant Professor of the Practice, College of Business; Associate Department Chair, Management and Technology
Email
Department
Department of Management and Technology
College
College of Business

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Areas of Expertise

​Strategy, Remittances, International Development, Strategic Management, Strategic Leadership, Governance, Nonprofit Organizations, Pedagogy, Organizations, Social Benefit Organizations, Coaching, Consulting 
Daisha M Merritt
Dr. Merritt is the current Associate Department Chair of the Department of Management and Technology in the COB at ERAU, World Wide. She began her career with James Madison University where she attained her doctorate in Strategic Leadership Studies through the College of Business. Previous to her academic life, she completed her MBA at Florida Gulf Coast University while working in Healthcare. Merritt worked both in healthcare administration and clinical health. This included dermatological surgery, healthcare administration, and migrant health education at both for-profit and non-profit locations. Additionally, Merritt has succeeded and failed in business endeavors, her most recent being a successful import business (closed in 2013) bringing handmade textiles directly from the artisan in southern Mexico to the United States. After completing her doctorate, Merritt taught as a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. her main areas of focus were Nonprofit Management and Experiential Education. During her last year there she was the Academic Liaison to the Center for Social Justice and Innovation. Merritt found her Riddle home ins 2018 in the College of Business, where she currently is faculty today. Recently, she has been delving further into online pedagogy teaching predominately in the online modality. While also taking on the leadership role of Associate Department Chair. Merritt offers pro-bono governance consulting to nonprofit organizations and continually coaches business students. Her research is focused on strategy in the nonprofit world, leadership development, and has a strong collaborative research branch in diaspora communities worldwide and the impacts of remittance giving. Merritt teaches numerous classes in the COB, specifically in the MSM, BTSM, and MSLD programs. If you have any questions or would like to connect, please email Dr. Merritt: daisha.merritt@erau.edu
  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Strategic Leadership: Nonprofit and Community Leadership, James Madison University
  • Marketplace Simulation - Marketplace
  • MGMT 610: Business Process Mgmt
  • HROM 520: Organizational Resilience
  • MGMT 680: Strategic Action
MGMT 436, MGMT 672, MGMT 535, MGMT 325, OBLD 520

Merritt, D. & Khan, S. (2020). Remittances and International Development: The Invisible Forces Shaping Community. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group.


Denney, V. P. & Merritt, D. M. (2020). Improving the ethical decision making framework (EDMF) through the lens of graduate business students. Journal of Modern Project Management.


Khan, S. & Merritt, D. M. (2018). Motivations in philanthropy and giving: Towards an integrated (mid-range) theory. Journal of Social Sciences.


Merritt, D. M. (2017). Community based participatory research as a foundation to experiential education teaching and learning. Center for Social Innovation and Justice. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.


DeWit, A., Merritt, D. M. & Khan, S. (2016). Identification and remittances: Does integration hinder immigrant giving to the country of origin? White paper. Presented and prepared through ISTR.


Sloan, M. F., Ford, K., & Merritt, D. M. (2015). Shifts in practice based on rapid re-housing for rural homelessness: An exploratory study of micropolitan homelessness service provisions. Contemporary Rural Social Work, 7(2), 127-134.


Merritt, D. M. (2015). Nonprofit leadership: A study of governance changes over time. ​James Madison University. School of Strategic Leadership Studies.

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