International bureaucrats and organizational performance. Country-specific knowledge and sectoral knowledge in World Bank projects

M Heinzel - International Studies Quarterly, 2022 - academic.oup.com
International organizations (IOs) try to incorporate policy-specific best practices and country-
specific knowledge to increase well-informed decision-making. However, the relative …

Earmarked funding and the control–performance trade-off in international development organizations

M Heinzel, B Cormier, B Reinsberg - International Organization, 2023 - cambridge.org
Since the 1990s, the funding of multilateral development assistance has rapidly transformed.
Donors increasingly constrain the discretion of international development organizations …

[PDF][PDF] Theorizing decision-making in international bureaucracies: UN peacekeeping operations and responses to norm violations

K Oksamytna, O Tansey… - International Studies …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Many international organizations (IOs) provide assistance to governments through country
offices or peacekeeping operations. Sometimes, government authorities in countries …

The performance of international organizations: a new measure and dataset based on computational text analysis of evaluation reports

S Eckhard, V Jankauskas, E Leuschner, I Burton… - The Review of …, 2023 - Springer
International organizations (IOs) of the United Nations (UN) system publish around 750
evaluation reports per year, offering insights on their performance across project, program …

The influence of the psychological contract on employee engagement in a South African bank

DA Ngobeni, MD Saurombe, RM Joseph - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The workplace is characterised by numerous contracts of agreement that an employee and
employer must sign to formalise their employment relationship. The informal agreement …

A threat rather than a resource: Why voicing internal criticism is difficult in international organisations

B Christian - Journal of International Relations and …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Voicing criticism seems to be a difficult task for employees in international organisations
(IOs), as numerous anecdotes in the literature suggest. This observation is alarming, since …

Rewarding a friend: Does the World Bank direct non-commercial risk insurance to countries that support US foreign policy interests?

J Gamso, A Dimitrova - New Political Economy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Many scholars have investigated the politics of World Bank Group (WBG) lending, often
finding that WBG loans are distributed in ways that advance US policy interests. However …

Donald Trump and the survival strategies of international organisations: when can institutional actors counter existential challenges?

H Dijkstra, L von Allwörden, LA Schuette… - Cambridge Review of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The Trump administration posed an unprecedented challenge to many international
organisations (IOs). This article analyses the ability of IOs to respond and explains variation …

Incentivizing responses in international organization elite surveys: evidence from the world bank

M Heinzel, C Weaver, R Briggs - Journal of Experimental Political …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Scholars of International Organizations (IOs) increasingly use elite surveys to study the
preferences and decisions of policymakers. When designing these surveys, one central …

Policy recommendations of international bureaucracies: the importance of country-specificity

PO Busch, H Feil, M Heinzel, J Herold… - International …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Many international bureaucracies give policy advice to national administrative units. Why is
the advice given by some international bureaucracies more influential than the …