Inside Foreign AidJohns Hopkins University Press, 1975 - 140 pages Monograph on development aid, with special reference to the role of USA aid programmes and development projects - shows how organizational environment and behaviour determine many of the shortcomings of both bilateral aid (e.g. 'Aid') and multilateral aid (e.g. World Bank, IDB, UNDP (role of UN). Bibliography pp. 129 to 135 and references. |
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... organizational design . It attempts to find the organizational rational- ity that lurks behind much of the behavior of development assistance organizations . The difficulty of tracing today's development assistance problems back to ...
... organizational design . It attempts to find the organizational rational- ity that lurks behind much of the behavior of development assistance organizations . The difficulty of tracing today's development assistance problems back to ...
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... organizational environ- ment that permitted considerable mobility , informality of communi- cation and decisionmaking , and easy access to the top . This type of environment , in turn , was suited to organizational tasks which , like ...
... organizational environ- ment that permitted considerable mobility , informality of communi- cation and decisionmaking , and easy access to the top . This type of environment , in turn , was suited to organizational tasks which , like ...
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... ORGANIZATIONAL FIT The literature of organizations has shown that a certain type of organizational structure has been most conducive to the accom- plishment of a task like development assistance , where " problems and requirements for ...
... ORGANIZATIONAL FIT The literature of organizations has shown that a certain type of organizational structure has been most conducive to the accom- plishment of a task like development assistance , where " problems and requirements for ...
Contents
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
The Institutionalization of Outside Criticism | 38 |
Copyright | |
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