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Paperback When Knowledge Is Power: Three Models of Change in International Organizations Book

ISBN: 0520074025

ISBN13: 9780520074026

When Knowledge Is Power: Three Models of Change in International Organizations

(Part of the Studies in International Political Economy Series)

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Do governments seeking to collaborate in such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank ever learn to improve the performance of those organizations? Can international... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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difficult to change

The book is a testament to how difficult it can be to change a large international organisation. The focus is on the United Nations and the World Bank. For the UN, there is an analysis of its child agencies like WHO. The author gives a sociological perspective on the civil servants who typically staff these organisations. More to the point, these are public organisations, dominated by political groups from numerous nations. The heterogenous nature of the nations is reflected in the diversity of the workforce and in its aims. He considers these to be ideologies, often conflicting, as during the Cold War. Apart from the superpower rivalries, there was also tension between developed and developing nations. Which added to the difficulty of management. What the book did not address was the issues of inefficiencies in staffing, and a possibility of corruption in some agencies. All aided by conflicting societal mores. Change can happen, but often slowly in these organisations.
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