CHOOSING THE LESSER EVIL by Liesbet Heyse, Dr. Math Noortmann ( 9780754646129 )

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CHOOSING THE LESSER EVIL
UNDERSTANDING DECISION MAKING IN HUMANITARIAN AID NGOS

By:

Liesbet Heyse, Dr. Math Noortmann

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0754646122

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9780754646129

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

28 January, 2007

Series:

Non-State Actors in International Law, Politics and Governance Series

Pages:

252

Description:

Provides an empirical account of organizational decision making and combines insights of organizational decision-making theory and organization theory. The central question in this book is how non-governmental humanitarian aid organizations initiate, terminate and extend their project activities.

Synopsis:

How do non-governmental humanitarian aid organizations initiate, terminate and extend their project activities? Humanitarian aid organizations regularly face difficult decisions about life and death in a context of serious time constraints which force them daily to select whom to help and whom not to help. Liesbet Heyse focuses on how humanitarian aid organizations make these decisions and provides an inside view of the decision making processes. Two NGO case studies are used as illustration - Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) and Acting with Churches Together (ACT) - both of which operate in an international network and represent specific types of NGOs often found in the community. This book opens up the black box of NGO operations, provides an empirical account of organizational decision making and combines insights of organization theory and organizational decision making theory.

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Ashgate Publishing Limited

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