Choosing the Lesser Evil : Understanding Decision Making in Humanitarian Aid NGOs (Hardcover)

Chapter 1 Choosing the Lesser Evil: Selecting Humanitarian Aid Projects; Part I NGO Decision Making in Theory; Chapter 2; Chapter 3 Opening the Black Box of Internal NGO Dynamics: An Organizational Decision-Making Perspective; Chapter 4 Towards the Reality of Humanitarian Aid Provision: Three Sketches of NGO Behavior; Part 2 MSF Holland Decision Making in Practice; Chapter 5 Traces of the Administrative Organization: MSF's Organizational Features; Chapter 6 Consequentiality in Aid Provision: MSF's Dominant Decision-Making Pattern; Chapter 7 Disagreement, Commitment, and Constraints: MSF's Secondary Decision-Making Patterns; Chapter 8 From Consequential to Garbage Can Decision-Making: Two Examples of MSF Aid Provision to Africa; Part III ACT Netherlands' Decision-Making in Practice; Chapter 9 The Opposite of the Administrative Organization: ACT Netherlands' Organizational Features; Chapter 10 Working With 'The Family': ACT's Dominant Decision-Making Pattern; Chapter 11 Working Outside 'The Family': ACT's Secondary Decision-making Patterns; Part IV Comparison and Conclusion; Chapter 12 Decison-Making Dynamics in MSF and ACT: Comparison and Discussion of Research Results; Chapter 13 A Look Beyond the Horizon: Identifying Steps towards Theoretical Generalization;