Choosing the lesser evil understanding decision making in humanitarian aid NGOs /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heyse, Liesbet, 1973-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.
Series:Non-state actors in international law, politics, and governance series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Choosing the lesser evil : selecting humanitarian aid projects
  • Filling a void in NGO research : understanding diversity in NGO behavior
  • Opening the black box of internal NGO dynamics : an organizational decision-making perspective
  • Towards the reality of humanitarian aid provision : three sketches of NGO behavior
  • Traces of the administrative organization : MSF's organizational features
  • Consequentionality in aid provision : MSF's dominant decision-making pattern
  • Disagreement, commitment, and constraints : MSF's secondary decision-making patterns
  • From consequential to garbage can decision-making : two examples of MSF aid provision to Africa
  • The opposite of the administrative organization : ACT Netherlands' organizational features
  • Working with 'the family' : ACT's dominant decision-making pattern
  • Working outside 'the family' : ACT's secondary decision-making patterns
  • Decision-making dynamics in MSF and ACT : comparison and discussion of research results
  • A look beyond the horizon : identifying steps towards theoretical generalization
  • Complexity reduction through decision-making : intended and unintended consequences in humanitarian aid.