Managing Nongovernmental Organizations

Culture, Power and Resistance

Frederik Claeyé (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

246 Seiten

2014
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-72972-7 (ISBN)

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The idea that international development aid needs to be better managed and coordinated gained currency in the early 1990s. The increasing emphasis on management has resulted in the present vogue of ‘managing for development results’ as one of the central tenets in the discourse on international aid. But how appropriate are these ideas, tools, and techniques for non-governmental development organizations (NGOs), and how much does geographic context matter? Examining the current debate on aid effectiveness and the role of NGOs in contributing to it, this book highlights the critical importance of understanding how the global and the local interact to increase aid efficacy and develop more culturally astute ways of managing NGOs.

With a focus on NGOs active in sub-Saharan Africa as case studies, author Frederik Claeyé demonstrates that NGOs are not mere passive recipients of management knowledge and practices emanating from the global governance structure of international aid, but actively engage with these ideas and practices to translate and rework them through a local cultural lens. This process results in the emergence of unique hybrid management systems that combine the pressure to become more business-like with the mission to satisfy the demands of the communities they serve.

Frederik Claeyé is Senior Lecturer at Lille Catholic University, France. He received his PhD from Middlesex University London. He is Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa. He has published on leadership and management in NGOs in sub-Sahara Africa and presented his work at various international conferences.

1. Introduction 2. NGO Management: The Cross-Cultural Imperative 3. Cross-Cultural Interactions at the ‘Glocal’ Interface 4. Towards a Critical, Cross-Cultural Perspective on NGO Management 5. Research Design 6. Recording everyday material practices 7. Discursive Resources: Framing Non-Profit Management 8. Mimicry and Hybridity: Managerialism Meets Ubuntu 9. Discussion and Conclusion

Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
Zusatzinfo	12 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	620 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-415-72972-6 / 0415729726
ISBN-13	978-0-415-72972-7 / 9780415729727
Zustand	Neuware