Introducing choice and competition in public services was supposed to put citizens in the “driver's seat”, making them in charge of their service provision. Introducing choice often is indeed beneficial for citizens. However, it sometimes also leads to increased inequality among citizens....

Non-profit organisations are enjoying an increasing amount of power and influence in Spain when it comes to raising citizen awareness on issues such as the environment, cooperation and human rights. However, they are gradually losing that aura of trust and credibility, due to their close links...

Little is known about the effects of regime change on government workers' job satisfaction. Conventional theories of work satisfaction have identified various individual or organisational antecedents of public employees' well-being in many different contexts. In this study, we add an additional...

The Mindanao conflict in Southern Philippines is a long-standing controversy that has eluded comprehensive solutions. Despite efforts of the Government of the Philippines (GRP) and the representatives from the peoples of Mindanao in undertaking peace initiatives, “the war:” continues. The...

(VF)Toute démarche de recherche-action pose comme centrale la ré-solution d’un problème concret. Cet article se propose de spécifier et d’illustrer les difficultés que pose le choix d’une démarche de construction collective du problème avec les membres de l’organisation. Une...

Toute démarche de recherche-action pose comme centrale la résolution d’un problème concret. Cet article se propose de spécifier et d’illustrer les difficultés que pose le choix d’une démarche de construction collective du problème avec les membres de l’organisation. Une...

The resolution of a concrete problem lies at the heart of action research approaches. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the practical difficulties implied by the adoption of a participative approach where the problem to be solved is constructed collaboratively with organizational...

Agencies possess enormous regulatory discretion. This discretion allows executive branch agencies in particular to insulate their decisions from presidential review by raising the costs of such review. They can do so, for example, through variations in policymaking form, cost-benefit analysis...

This paper observes the phenomenology of the informal international structures. It seeks to ascertain some key typological features based on such criteria as geography, power, problem, theme or issue, or a combination thereof. It further seeks to obtain a more consolidated vision of fundamental...

A motivation for the paper is to reveal the "calculative silences" of scholars who limit their research and teaching to organisations that are centralised command and control hierarchies favoured by dictators. Centralisation introduces systemic unethical and dysfunctional relationships from the...