Research Catalog

Title

The OECD : a study of organisational adaptation / Peter Carroll, professor, faculty of business, University of Tasmania, Australia ; Aynsley Kellow, professor of government, University of Tasmania, Australia.

Author

Carroll, P. G. H. (Peter G. H.)

Publication

• Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar, [2011]
• ©2011

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Additional Authors

Kellow, Aynsley J. (Aynsley John), 1951-

Description

vii, 301 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The book reveals, for the first time, the origins, growth and complex role of the OECD as it celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, showing how it has adapted, for the most part successfully, to the changing needs of its members, both large and small.

Alternative Title

• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development : a study of organisational adaptation
• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development : a study of organizational adaptation

Subject

• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Organizational change
• International agencies
• International economic relations
• Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-287) and index.

Contents

The OECD approaching 50 -- Key processes : peer reviews, roundtables and budgets -- The origins of the OECD and its development in the 1960s -- The quest for a more active role in the 1970s -- The OECD in the 1980s : changing roles and influence -- The 1990s : new challenges -- A new century -- Accession and policy transfer -- The OECD and civil society -- The OECD and international organisations -- The OECD and the environment -- The health-related work of the OECD.

ISBN

• 1845429540
• 9781845429546

LCCN

2011922857

OCLC

• ocn707200241
• 707200241
• SCSB-5590859

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries