Management reforms in international organizations : a comparative analysis of influencing factors on organizational change of the European Commission

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This present comparative analysis addresses the question: which influencing factors affect the successful or failed implementation of administrative reforms in the European Commission? For this purpose, I conducted a historical comparison of the Commission s reform attempts between 1952 and 2004.
Facing a lack of theoretical understanding of managerial reforms at the international level, this study aims at contributing to uncover theoretical explanations of administrative reforms in international organizations which the European Commission is a case of. Thus, this study gives an overview of theoretical accounts representing possible paths for studying the research object.
The reviewed theoretical background includes three threads of literature: managerial reform in international organizations, public sector reform and change management in the private sector.
Following an exploratory logic, a factorial scheme of 15 potential influencing factors is developed on the basis of these theoretical accounts. This analytical frame places interactions of key actors center stage and applies this approach to analyzing seven successful and three failed reform initiatives. Three out of the seven modernization initiatives have note been researched
until this study. To answer the research question, the individual cases of modernization were compared and their success or failure was linked to influencing factors. Thereby, seven factors were identified as factors directly affecting the success or failure of formal implementation.
Formulating theoretical assumptions on these 'success factors' of managerial reforms marks an important step toward theorizing managerial reforms in the European Commission and other international organizations.
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In dieser vergleichenden Studie wird die Forschungsfrage gestellt, welche Einflussfaktoren den Erfolg oder das Scheitern der Implementierung einer Verwaltungsreform in der Europäischen Kommission beeinflussen.
Um diese Frage zu beantworten, wird ein historischer Vergleich von Reformbemühungen der Europäischen Kommission zwischen 1952 und 2004 vorgenommen.
Bisher haben wir nur wenig theoretisches Wissen über Managementreformen in internationalen Organisationen. Daher zielt diese Studie darauf ab, einen Beitrag zu leisten, um eben diese Verwaltungsreformen systematisch zu erklären. Die hier näher betrachtete Europäische Kommission wird als ein Einzelfall internationaler Organisationen verstanden.
Um einen Beitrag zum besseren Verständnis von Managementreformen auf internationaler Ebene zu leisten, gibt diese Studie einen Überblick über mögliche theoretische Ansätze, die zur Untersuchung von Verwaltungsreformen auf internationaler Eben genutzt werden könnten. Der vorgestellte theoretische Hintergrund beinhaltet drei Literaturstränge: Managementreformen in internationalen Organisationen, Verwaltungsreform im öffentlichen Sektor und "change management" im privaten Sektor.
Für die vergleichende Analyse werden - einer explorativen Logik folgend - 15 potentielle Einflussfaktoren und mögliche Ausprägungen aus den unterschiedlichen Ansätzen ausgewählt. Der Fokus dieses analytischen Rahmens ist auf Interaktionen zwischen Schlüsselakteuren gerichtet. Dieser akteurs-zentrierte Ansatz wird auf die Analyse der sieben erfolgreichen und erfolglosen Reformbemühungen der Europäischen Kommission angewendet. Drei dieser sieben Reforminitiativen wurden bisher kaum wahrgenommen und erst in der vorliegenden Studie ausgiebig beschrieben.
Um die Forschungsfrage nach den relevanten Einflussfaktoren zu beantworten werden die sieben Modernisierungsfälle der Kommission miteinander verglichen und ihr Erfolg oder Scheitern mit den möglichen Einflussfaktoren in Verbindung gebracht. Auf diese Weise wurden sieben direkte Einflussfaktoren auf den Erfolg von Verwaltungsreformen in der Europäischen Kommission identifiziert.
Die theoretische Annahmen bezüglich dieser entdeckten "Erfolgsfaktoren", die hier formuliert werden konnten, bedeuten eine großen Forschritt auf dem Weg theoretische Erklärungen für Managementreformen in internationalen Organisationen zu erarbeiten.
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350 Public Administration
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Managementreform,Verwaltungsmodernisierung,administrative reforms,implementation,public sector reform,change management,international organization
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ISO 690HEISSERER, Barbara, 2008. Management reforms in international organizations : a comparative analysis of influencing factors on organizational change of the European Commission [Master thesis]
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