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Informationen zum Autor Alnoor Ebrahim is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. His research and teaching focus on the challenges of accountability, performance, and organizational learning facing nonprofit and civil society organizations. He is also affiliated with Harvard University's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Edward Weisband holds the Diggs Endowed Chair Professorship in the Social Sciences in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. Klappentext Accountability is seen as an essential feature of governments, businesses and NGOs. This volume treats it as a socially constructed means of control that can be used by the weak as well as the powerful. It contributes analytical depth to the diverse debates on accountability in modern organizations by exploring its nature, forms and impacts in civil society organizations, public and inter-governmental agencies and private corporations. The contributors draw from a range of disciplines to demonstrate the inadequacy of modern rationalist prescriptions for establishing and monitoring accountability standards, arguing that accountability frameworks attached to principal-agent logics and applied universally across cultures typically fail to achieve their objectives. By examining a diverse range of empirical examples and case studies, this book underscores the importance of grounding accountability procedures and standards in the divergent cultural, social and political settings in which they operate. Zusammenfassung This volume examines debates on the nature and impacts of accountability in modern organizations. It studies public! private and nonprofit sectors of society and draws from cases across a range of comparative cultural! social! and political settings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 1. Forging global accountabilities Edward Weisband and Alnoor Ebrahim; Part I. Public Accountability: Participatory Spheres from Global to Local: 2. Multilateralism and building stronger international institutions Ngaire Woods; 3. Global financial governance and the problem of accountability: the role of the public sphere Randall D. Germain; 4. Citizen activism and public accountability: lessons from case studies in India Anne Marie Goetz and Rob Jenkins; Part II. Experiments in Forging NGO Accountability: Mutuality and Context: 5. Multiparty social action and mutual accountability L. David Brown; 6. Not accountable to anyone? Collective action and the role of NGOs in the campaign to ban 'blood diamonds' Ian Smillie; 7. Bringing in society, culture and politics: values and accountability in a Bangladeshi NGO David Lewis; Part III. Reflective Accountability: New Directions for Participatory Practice: 8. A rights-based approach to accountability Lisa Jordan; 9. Evaluation and accountability in emergency relief Coralie Bryant; 10. Towards a reflective accountability in NGOs Alnoor Ebrahim; Part IV. Global Accountability Frameworks and Corporate Social Responsibility: 11. Financial actors and instruments in the construction of global corporate social responsibility Michael R. MacLeod; 12. Public accountability within transnational supply chains: a global agenda for empowering southern workers? Kate Macdonald; 13. Tripartite multilateralism: why corporate social responsibility is not accountability Edward Weisband; Conclusion: 14. Prolegomena to a postmodern public ethics: images of accountability in global frames Edward Weisband....
