1st Edition

Reforming the European Commission

Edited By Michael W. Bauer Copyright 2009
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

Many international and supranational organisations have lately been busy modernising their internal administration. But nowhere has management change received a similar amount of attention than in the case of the European Commission. Although the perception prevails that the Commission has been losing out in recent years, this vivid interest, academic as well as public, in the so-called Kinnock... Read more

1 Introduction: Organizational Change, Management Reform and EU Policy-Making  Michael W. Bauer

2 'Mission Impossible' but Mission Accomplished? The Kinnock Reforms and the European Commission  Hussein Kassim

3 Explaining variation in organizational change: The reform of human resource management in the European Commission and the OECD  Christoph Knill and Tim Balint

4 Diffuse Anxieties, Deprived Entrepreneurs. Commission Reform and Middle Management  Michael W. Bauer

5 Reforming the Commission: Between modernization and bureaucratization  Antonis Ellinas and Ezra Suleiman

6 Implementing Organizational Change - The Case of the Kinnock Reforms  Emmanuelle Schön-Quinlivan

7 European Commission Reform and the Origins of the European Transparency Initiative  Michelle Cini

8 Enlargement, Reform and the European Commission - Weathering a Perfect Storm?  John Peterson

Biography

Michael W. Bauer is Assistant Professor for Comparative Public Policy and Administration at the Department of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz, Germany.