Organizational retrenchment and reorganization: The case of the United Nations' response to the financial crisis of the mid-1980's.
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Title
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Organizational retrenchment and reorganization: The case of the United Nations' response to the financial crisis of the mid-1980's.
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Identifier
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AAI9224828
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identifier
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9224828
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Creator
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Kanninen, Tapio Olavi.
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Contributor
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Adviser: John Mollenkopf
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Date
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1990
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Political Science, General | Political Science, International Law and Relations | Political Science, Public Administration
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Abstract
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The study explains the background and reasons for the emergence of the United Nations financial crisis which led to the retrenchment and reorganizations. Secondly, the study tells the United Nations retrenchment and reorganization story from the organizational decision-making point of view. The analysis of these events and their background leads later, in the dissertation's conclusions, to the discussion of developing an adequate retrenchment theory or framework for international organizations.;The study also analyzes the impact of retrenchment and reorganization, organizationally and managerially, and then applies urban retrenchment theory to the analysis of the United Nations retrenchment and reorganization. The study shows surprising similarity in the overall processes in urban retrenchment and retrenchment at the UN.;The study also discusses the leadership and decision making during the crisis and compares the UN case to the cases of New York, New Jersey state and the World Bank. The study demonstrates surprising rationality in the retrenchment and reorganization strategy devised by Perez de Cuellar to deal with the crisis. Finally, the study examines retrenchment and reorganization as a part of milieu change. Theoretically, the study discusses, as a conclusion, whether it would be possible more generally to integrate the concepts of milieu (environment), decision making and organizational design into a theory of leadership to counter a common fragmentation in policy formulation research.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
